Florida, 2002Rip Current in Florida, May 10, 2002
May 10, 2002 · NWS MOB · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 rip current, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 10, 9:42 AM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 9:42 AM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1042 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002
BOUNDARY OVER CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA HAS EASED A BIT
FARTHER SOUTH WITH CONVECTION POPPING IN THE NORTHERN ZONES.
KEEPING CHC SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AT 30 PERCENT WITH SLIGHT
CHC...20 PERCENT...NEARER THE COAST AND 10 PERCENT ALG COAST. REASON
BEING IS WE SEE WEAKENING OF WIND FIELD ALF AND NEAR SFC WHICH WUD
BE FAVORABLE TO SEABREEZE.
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.MOB
AL...NONE.
FL...NONE.
MS...NONE.
Rip Current, Escambia
- When
- May 10, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Escambia County, Pensacola Beach
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 30.614, -87.341 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
An 18-year old male student drowned in rough water near an unguarded stretch of beach near Fort Pickens. Yellow Flags, warning swimmers of rough surf, were flying along the beach at the time of the drowning. The student was with a group of kids when they couldn't find him. By the time rescuers found the boy, he had drowned.
- Rip Current
- A narrow, fast current flowing away from the beach that caused a drowning or rescue.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 10, 2002$2.0 million · F0 · 35 events
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 10, 2002$3.1 million · F0 · 14 events
- Flooding in Alaska, May 10 to 13, 2002$1.0 million · 3 events
- Flash Flood in Alabama, May 10, 2002$25,000 · 1 event
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 10 to 11, 2002F0 · 18 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in South Carolina, May 10 to 11, 200250 kt wind · 15 events
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, May 10, 20021.75 in hail · 4 events
- High Wind in California, May 10 to 11, 20023 events
- Flooding in Wisconsin, May 10 to 12, 20022 events
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 10, 20021.75 in hail · 2 events
- Hail in Georgia, May 10, 20020.75 in hail · 2 events
- Extreme Cold in Oregon, May 10 to 11, 20022 events
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: 5296562.