2 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 Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 24, 2:00 PM EST, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 300 PM EDT SAT AUG 24 2002 LATEST RUN OF MODELS WETTER THAN PREVIOUS...ESPECIALLY SUNDAY INTO MONDAY AS SERIES OF SHORTWAVES MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. ASSOCIATED SURFACE BOUNDARY PROGGED TO MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA LATE SUNDAY...PUSHING INTO NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SUNDAY NIGHT. EXTENDED PROGGS HINT AT BOUNDARY MEANDERING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA INTO MONDAY...THEN DRIFTING BACK NORTH AS A WEAK COOL FRONT APPROACHES THE STATE FROM THE WEST ON TUESDAY. THIS WEAK BOUNDARY APPEARS TO MEANDER SOMEWHERE ACROSS ALABAMA INTO THURSDAY BEFORE DISSIPATING AS HIGH PRESSURE BEGINS TO BUILD WEST FROM THE ATLANTIC. ATLANTIC MOISTURE ON THE INCREASE ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY WITH LATEST MRF MODEL SHOWING 70 PERCENT OR BETTER MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. PLAN TO KEEP THE WORDING SLIGHT CHANCE GOING FOR NOW AND LET FUTURE RUNS CONFIRM. FEW SHOWERS/TSTORMS STARTING TO POP UP ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA AT THE MOMENT. WILL USE 20 TO 30 POP FOR EVENING PRECIP. .ATL... GA...NONE. ATL 71 89 70 85 / 20 40 30 40 AHN 70 91 69 86 / 20 40 30 40 GVL 70 90 68 85 / 20 40 30 40 RMG 70 90 68 88 / 30 40 30 40 CSG 74 93 72 89 / 20 30 30 40 MCN 71 93 71 88 / 20 30 30 40 OUR DETAILED COUNTY FORECASTS ARE AVAILABLE AT FOUS52 KFFC. OUR AREA FORECAST FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA CITIES IS AVAILABLE AT FLUS42 KFFC.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The Courier Herald of Dublin reported that thunderstorm winds completely destroyed a huge combine shelter. Some of the debris from the shelter was blown into a large pine tree in the yard of a nearby home.
The Chattooga county 911 center reported that one tree was blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, August 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: 5318325, 5318324.