2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 25, 9:08 AM EST, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1008 AM EDT SUN AUG 25 2002 SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS FRONT FROM ARKANSAS THRU KENTUCKY AND VIRGINIA WITH LEESIDE TROF FROM EASTERN NC INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA. MESO-ETA INDICATES MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND HIGHER THETA-E AIR OVER NORTHERN GEORGIA BY 21Z. RADAR ALREADY HAS LOTS OF COVERAGE IN TENNESSEE AND SOME IN NORTH GEORGIA. PRESENT FORECAST HAS 40 POPS EVERYWHERE EXCEPT 30 IN CENTRAL. ABOUT THE ONLY CHANCE WILL BE TO UP TO 50 PCT ACROSS THE NORTH AND USE SCATTERED WORDING. MORE CLOUD COVER SHOULD HOLD TEMPS BELOW YESTERDAY...BUT MAY TWEAK UPWARD A LITTLE BIT. FCSTID =22 .ATL... GA...NONE. OUR DETAILED COUNTY FORECASTS ARE AVAILABLE AT FOUS52 KFFC. OUR AREA FORECAST FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA CITIES IS AVAILABLE AT FLUS42 KFFC. DH
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-252300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1145 AM EDT SUN AUG 25 2002 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TODAY... .SYNOPSIS... A SURFACE TROF WILL PERSIST ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY...WHILE A WEAK FRONTAL SYSTEM ACROSS TENNESSEE DRIFTS SOUTH. THE FRONTAL SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA BY LATE TODAY...THEN INTO NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA TONIGHT. .PRIMARY HAZARD...THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SCATTERED ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY...AS AFTERNOON HEATING COMBINE WITH A SURFACE TROF MEANDERING ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA...AND A WEAK COLD MOVING SOUTH FROM TENNESSEE. THE AIRMASS WILL BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE WITH CAPES IN THE 1500 TO 2000 RANGE AND LIFTED INDICES MINUS 2 TO MINUS 4. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE STRONG...BUT ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. .FOR SPOTTERS... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. HOWEVER... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY PERSONNEL ARE ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS. && FOR THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AND OTHER WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/FFC.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The Emanuel county 911 center reported that a lone tree was blown down.
The Laurens county 911 center reported that three or four trees were blown down in Cedar Grove. The public reported that tree limbs were down on U.S. Highway 441, four miles north of Cedar Grove.
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: 5318322, 5318323.