Florida, 2002Rip Current in Florida, September 14, 2002
September 14, 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 Sep 14, 11:30 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 11:30 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...AMENDMENT TO INCLUDE TOR WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1230 PM CDT SAT SEP 14 2002
SPC ALLOWE TOR WATCH 681 TO EXPIRE FOR SOUTHERN THIRD OF ALABAM FOR
TODAY AND NHC DROPPED TS WARNING. LAST MINUTE ADJUSTMENT TO ZONES TO
REFLECT SAME.
77
.MOB...
AL...FLOOD WATCH ALZ055>060-062-064 THROUGH 4PM SATURDAY.
FL...FLOOD WATCH FLZ001>006 THROUGH 4 PM SATURDAY.
MS...NONE.
Rip Current, Escambia
- When
- September 14, 1:00 PM CST to 1:05 PM CST
- Where
- Escambia County, Pensacola Beach
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 30.614, -87.341 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A twenty year old student from a local college had gone to Pensacola Beach with his brother. They were body surfing in waist-deep water when a rip current started pulling them out. One brother was able to make it ashore but the other one drowned in the rough water. Red flags were flying warning of very rough surf because of Tropical Storm Hanna.
- 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.
- Rip Current in Florida, September 14, 20021 death · 1 event
- Tropical Storm in Georgia, September 14 to 16, 2002$7.9 million · 7 events
- Flash Flooding in Georgia, September 14 to 15, 2002$7.8 million · 7 events
- Tropical Storm in Georgia, September 14 to 15, 200297 events
- Tropical Storm in Florida, September 14 to 15, 2002$400,000 · 13 events
- Storm Surge and Flash Flooding in Florida, September 14 to 15, 2002$205,000 · 7 events
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Georgia, September 14, 2002$103,000 · 20 events
- Flash Flooding in Florida, September 14 to 15, 2002$140,000 · 5 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, September 14, 2002$119,000 · 1.5 in hail · 8 events
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, September 14, 2002$102,000 · 50 kt wind · 2 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, September 14, 2002$60,000 · 52 kt wind · 5 events
- Flash Flood in Florida, September 14 to 15, 2002$25,000 · 1 event
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: 5319883.