1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 13, 2:55 PM EST, 45 minutes earlier.
EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 355 PM EDT SUN OCT 13 2002 CURRENT WX... ACTIVE ECSB STRADDLING THE COASTAL/INTERIOR COUNTIES THIS AFTN WITH A BROKEN LINE OF RW/TRW RUNNING THE LENGTH OF THE E FL COAST. FURTHER NW...AN ACTIVE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY RIDING AHEAD IS PRODUCING STRONG TRW OVER THE BIG BEND AREA. STRONG COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM S TX NEWD THROUGH THE TN VALLEY PUSHING SLOWLY INTO THE SERN STATES...LEADING EDGE OF THE H85-H70 THETA-E GRADIENT IS ALREADY IMPINGING ON THE WRN PANHANDLE...SFC DEWPOINTS DROPS ACROSS THE FRONT AVERAGING 25-30F DEG ALONG ITS LENGTH. OVER THE WRN CARIBBEAN...THE BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CONTINUES TO SHOW SIGNS OF DEVELOPMENT. FCST DISC... WILL NEED TO STEP POP UP A BIT TONIGHT AS THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY OVER THE BIG BEND AREA PUSHS E AND COLLIDES WITH THE ECSB. COLLSION SHOULD OCCUR W OF THE KMCO/KSFB AREA...WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS OVER LAKE COUNTY. WILL GO SCT/ISOLD ELSEWHERE AS THE H85-H50 STEERING FLOW REMAINS RATHER ANEMIC...DO NOT EXPECT ANY OF TONIGHTS CONVECTION TO WORK ITS WAY BACK TO THE COAST. WET WX PATTERN IN STORE FOR FL FOR THE NEXT 48HRS AS IT APPEARS THE BAROCLINIC FRONT AND THE BAROTROPIC SYSTEM WILL USE FL AS ITS BATTLEGROUND. THE TROPICAL WAVE IN THE WRN CARIB IS BECOMING MORE ORGANIZED AND MAY DEVELOP INTO A DEPRESSION WITHIN THE NEXT DAY OR SO...PLEASE REFER TO OFFICIAL NHC PRODUCTS FOR FULL INFORMATION. AN H85-H50 COL OVER THE NRN GOMEX IS SANDWICHED BETWEEN A WEAK ATLC RIDGE OVER THE FL PENINSULA/ERN GOMEX AND A WEAK RIDGE S OF THE RIO GRAND VALLEY. AS THE TROPICAL SYSTEM DEVELOPS...THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE IT WILL TRY TO FEEL OUT THE COL AND PUSH N ACROSS WRN CUBA...GFS MODEL BRINGS A BROAD LOW INTO THE FL STRAITS AFT 12Z TUE. MEANWHILE...THE COLD FRONT OVER THE SE U.S. WILL STALL OVER NEAR THE FL/GA BORDER AS IT RUNS INTO THE ATLC RIDGE. THE FRONT COULD PENETRATE AS FAR S AS THE BIG BEND AREA...BUT ANY FURTHER S IS UNLIKELY. LATEST RUC ANALYSIS SHOWS A 25-50KT W/NWRLY PUSH FROM THE H85-H50 WINDS OVER THE OH RIVER VALLEY AND THE UPR MIDWEST...WHICH WEAKENS TO A 10-15KT NWRLY PUSH OVER THE LWR MS VALLEY. THIS INDICATES THE NRN HALF OF THE FRONT IS BEGINNING TO OUTRACE AND ABANDON ITS SRN EXTENTION.. THE FRONT WILL WEAKEN THE RIDGING OVER THE AREA...ALLOWING THE DEVELOPING TROPICAL SYSTEM TO WORK ITS WAY N. INCREASING SERLY FLOW AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM WILL COMBINE WITH DEEP MOISTURE AND A BAROCLINIC BOUNDARY TO THE NORTH TO PRODUCE INCREASINGLY STRONG ISENTROPIC LIFT ACROSS THE PENINSULA MON NIGHT INTO TUE. AT THE SAME TIME...A +100KT H25 JET MAX OVER THE SW U.S. WILL PUSH EAST INTO THE GOMEX AND BEGIN TO INTERACT WITH THE WRN EXTENSION OF THE JET THAT IS DRIVING THE AFOREMENTIONED COLD FRONT. MODELS INDICATING A COUPLED JET PATTERN DEVELOPING OVER THE NRN GOMEX...LEADING TO CYCLOGENESIS ALONG THE STALLED FRONT. THE ENTIRE MESS IS EXPECTED TO DUKE IT OUT OVER FL...POPS WILL INCREASE TO LIKELY CAT BY TUE. CONDTIONS SHOULD IMPROVE RAPIDLY ON WED AS THE COMBINED LOW IS KICKED NE BY A REINFORCING S/WV TROF PUSHING OUT OF THE PAC NW. THE LOW WILL ADD THE FINAL SHOT NECESSARY TO USHER IN THE FIRST SHOT OF AUTUMN AIR TO THE FL PENINSULA WED NIGHT INTO THU. MARINE...NO SIGNIFICANT WINDS/SEAS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT...BUT CONDITIONS WILL BEGIN TO DETERIORATE LATE MON AS THE FRONT STALLS AND THE TROPICAL SYSTEM BEGINS TO PUSH N. EXPECT WINDS/SEA TO INCREASE TO CAUTIONARY LEVELS ON WED AS THE LOW PUSHES AWAY FROM FL AND THE TIGHTEN PGRAD PUSHES THE COLD FRONT THROUGH THE STATE. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... DAB EE 072/083 073/084 067 366 MCO EE 072/086 071/085 068 456 MLB EE 074/084 074/084 069 346 81 .MLB...NONE. PUBLIC/MARINE...BRAGAW AVIATION/FIRE WX...GLITTO
AMZ550-555-570-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-144-147- 132100- EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 620 AM EDT SUN OCT 13 2002 .DAY ONE... ...A FEW LIGHTNING STORMS THIS AFTERNOON... A WEAK HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE OFFSHORE NORTHEAST FLORIDA WILL CIRCULATE WEAK EASTERLY FLOW AND LEAD TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON LIGHTNING STORMS ...MAINLY OVER THE INTERIOR COUNTIES...AND AROUND LAKE OKEECHOBEE. LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM TODAYS STORMS....AND ISOLATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH CENTRAL FLORIDA FROM THE NORTHWEST. MOISTURE LEVELS WILL INCREASE AS THE COLD FRONT STALLS ACROSS NORTH FLORIDA AND A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPING IN THE CARIBBEAN SEA BEGINS TO MOVE NORTHEAST TOWARD SOUTH FLORIDA ...POSSIBLY BECOMING A TROPICAL CYCLONE AS IT DOES. THESE SYSTEMS WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE A RATHER UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...WITH AN INCREASED CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA MONDAY AND TUESDAY. AS THE LOW MOVES NORTHEAST AND AWAY FROM THE STATE...IT WILL DRAG THE COLD FRONT SOUTH THROUGH CENTRAL FLORIDA. BEHIND THE FRONT... STRONG NORTHWEST TO NORTH WINDS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR MARINERS ON THE ATLANTIC WATERS. TO VIEW THE GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS PRODUCT...GO TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV...AND CLICK ON EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. CRISTALDI
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:39 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds blew trees down on a car in the Tangelo Park area, and damaged the roof of a restaurant in Orlando.
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, October 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: 5323749, 5323750.