1 rip current, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 24, 3:25 PM EST, 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 325 PM EST SUN MAR 24 2002 CURRENTLY...SURFACE HIGH SITUATED OFF SOUTH CAROLINA COAST WITH RELATIVELY WEAK GRADIENT IN THE LOCAL AREA. VISIBLE SATELLITE SHOWED BOTH GULF AND EAST COAST SEABREEZES UNDERWAY WITH THE EAST COAST ONE THE STRONGER ONE. CU FIELD HAD FORMED ACROSS THE INTERIOR PENINSULA BUT WSR 88D WAS QUIET. TONIGHT...EXPECT GOOD AREA OF CONVERGENCE NEAR I-75 CORRIDOR WHERE SEABREEZES MERGE THIS EVE. DUE TO THE DRY AIRMASS IN PLACE AND SUBSIDENCE ALOFT...ANY PCP THAT DOES DEVELOP WILL BE VERY ISOLATED AND PROBABLY NOT WORTH PUTTING IN POP FOR. AFTER SUNSET...CLOUDS SHOULD BEGIN TO DISSIPATE WITH SKIES BECOMING CLEAR. WITH WEAK GRADIENT AND NEAR CALM WINDS...WILL FORECAST A LITTLE LOWER THAN GUIDANCE AND ALSO MENTION AREAS OF FOG. MONDAY/MONDAY NIGHT...SURFACE HIGH MOVES FURTHER OFFSHORE WITH WINDS BECOMING MORE SOUTHERLY AND INCREASING IN THE AFTERNOON. WILL SEE TEMPS SIMILAR TO TODAYS...WITH 80S INLAND AND 70S NEAR THE COAST. DESPITE THE INCREASE IN MOISTURE...WILL HOLD OFF ON POPS TIL MONDAY NIGHT. MODELS HINTING AT SOME MOISTURE/PCP COMING IN FROM THE SOUTH AS WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE COMES IN. WILL PUT IN LOW POPS EVERYWHERE MONDAY NIGHT. TUESDAY/TUESDAY NIGHT...NEXT COLD FRONT APPROACHES CWA. MOST OF THE LIFT AND DYNAMICS GO BOTH WELL NORTH AND SOUTH...BUT WITH FRONT APPROACHING DURING MAX HEATING (AS WAS INDICATED IN PREVIOUS FORECAST) WILL RAISE POPS TO 50 PCT IN GEORGIA AND SUWANNEE VALLEY AND 30 TO 40 PCT ELSEWHERE. WILL CONTINUE SAME POPS INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. WEDNESDAY...LATEST RUN FROM AVN A LITTLE FASTER WITH THE FRONT AND CLEARS MOST OF THE CWA BY 12Z. THINK THIS MAY BE A LITTLE OPTIMISTIC AND WILL LEAVE IN LOW MORNING POPS FOR THE SOUTH. OTHERWISE...EXPECT CLEARING DURING THE DAY WITH BREEZY CONDITIONS IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. EXTENDED...NW FLOW ALOFT WILL RESULT IN MOSTLY DRY EXTENDED...WITH TEMPS NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL...ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT...BUT NO EXTREME OR RECORD COLD EXPECTED. ANOTHER FRONT APPROACHES (MOSTLY DRY) FRIDAY NITE/SAT FOLLOWED BY STRONG HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING ALONG THE MID ATLANTIC. MARINE...ENE FLOW NEAR 10 KNOTS WILL VEER OUT AHEAD OF NEXT FRONT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT AND BECOME NW BY WEDNESDAY. WIND SPEEDS GENERALLY 15 KNOTS OR LESS WITH SEAS IN THE 2 TO 4 FOOT RANGE. FIRE WX...NO HEADLINES. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE FALLEN BELOW 35 PCT ACROSS THE INLAND AREAS...BUT ARE EXPECTED TO BE OF SHORT DURATION. PRELIM AMG BW 050/082 059/080 056 08001 SSI BW 054/076 059/078 060 08001 JAX BB 054/081 060/079 059 08001 SGJ BB 056/077 061/079 061 08001 GNV BB 054/083 058/082 059 08001 OCF BB 056/083 059/082 060 08002= .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. PETERSON
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040- GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-242300- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1130 AM EST SUN MAR 24 2002 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. HESS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
42 Year old man attempted to rescue children and was caught in a rip current. Taken to Flagler Hospital and died on 03/25/02.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, St. Johns | 2002-03-25 | 42 | Male | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, March 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5290379.