1 flood, 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 4, 12:30 PM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 130 PM EDT WED SEP 4 2002 TROPICAL STORM EDOUARD CONTINUES TO INCH CLOSER TO THE NORTHEAST FLORIDA COAST AS A MINIMAL TROPICAL STORM. CURRENT FORECAST TRACK FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER HAS EDOUARD MAKING LANDFALL TOMORROW MORNING SLOWLY TRACKING WEST SOUTHWEST ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA ON THURSDAY...THEN EMERGING OVER THE NORTHEAST GULF THURSDAY NIGHT. NOT EXPECTING ANY IMPACT FROM WINDS WITH THIS STORM OVER THE FA...HOWEVER WILL LIKELY SEE AN INCREASE IN AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. OVERALL WEATHER PATTERN WILL CHANGE FRIDAY AND BECOME QUITE WET AS WHATEVER IS LEFT OF EDOUARD MOVES OVER THE EASTERN GULF AND AWAY FROM OUR AREA. SOUTHEAST FLOW WILL DEVELOP ACROSS FLORIDA AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE MID ATLANTIC AND LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS OVER THE WESTERN GULF. DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL BE PULLED OVER THE FA WITH AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY EACH DAY THROUGH TUESDAY...WITH HIGHEST POPS ALONG COASTAL COUNTIES AS WEST COAST SEABREEZE WILL BE LOCKED AT THE COAST. MARINE: WINDS EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA...BUT WILL HAVE TO CLOSELY MONITOR EDOUARD AS IT MAKES ITS WAY OVER THE EASTERN GULF ON FRIDAY. IF IT HOLDS TOGETHER...WINDS MAY BE A BIT STRONGER THAN CURRENTLY FORECAST. PRELIM NUMBERS: BKV 71/90/70/88 3656 TPA 76/90/75/89 2646 GIF 75/91/75/90 2636 SRQ 75/89/75/88 2636 FMY 75/91/75/90 2626 .TBW...NONE. OGLESBY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains of 3 to 5 inches in 90 minutes combined to flood intersections and low lying areas, some up to waist deep.
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, September 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: 5309647.