1 thunderstorm wind, 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 26, 2:55 PM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 255 PM EST TUE MAR 26 2002 AFTN/TONIGHT...TSTMS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS ENTIRE CWA. MORNING SOUNDING SHOWED GOOD INSTABILITY WITH LI IN THE -6 TO -7 RANGE AND MODIFIED CAPES AOA 3000J/KG. FLOW AT SFC AND ALOFT A BIT WEAK FOR ANY WIDESPREAD ORGANIZED SEVERE WX BUT WILL BE MONITORING CLOSELY FOR ANY SEVERE CELLS THAT DO DEVELOP. PRE-FRONTAL SQUALL STILL BACK OVER SE ALABAMA AND FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THIS FEATURE SHOULD WEAKEN AS IT MOVES EAST AND DYNAMICS WEAKEN. HOWEVER...THE DYNAMICS THAT DO REMAIN WILL LIKELY ENHANCE SEA BREEZE INITIATED CONVECTION CURRENTLY DEVELOPING. THE RESULTING CONVECTION WILL LIKELY MOVE SLOWLY BACK TOWARDS THE EAST COAST THROUGH THE LATE EVENING. WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS MOST PLACES TONIGHT FOR PRECIP MAINLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT. PARTIAL CLEARING STARTING IN THE NORTHWEST LATE. FORECAST...SKIES WILL CLEAR FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST DURING THE MORNING HOURS WED AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS EAST INTO MID ATLANTIC STATES. WEAK FRONT MOVES INTO S GEORGIA LATE FRIDAY BUT APPEARS TO WASH OUT BEFORE MOVING INTO FLORIDA. HIGH PRESSURE REBUILDS FOR WEEKEND WITH MOISTURE BEGINNING TO INCREASE ON SUNDAY AHEAD OF NEXT SYSTEM. TIMING AND INTENSITY OF NEXT SYSTEM STILL IN QUESTION...SO WILL NOT MAKE ANY BIG CHANGES TO EXTENDED. MARINE...NO BIG CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS FCST. WINDS TO SHIFT TO NORTHWEST WED WITH SCEC CONDITIONS EXPECTED. PRELIM AMG 52/73/45/74 6000 SSI 58/74/49/67 7000 JAX 58/75/47/74 6100 SGJ 63/73/52/72 6200 GNV 61/77/48/78 5100 OCF 62/79/48/78 5100 25 .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. CAMP/CARROLL/TRABERT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Pea sized hail reported by the public and EMA.
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: 5286761.