Thunderstorm Wind, Charlton
- When
- July 20, 2:20 PM EST
- Where
- Charlton County, St George
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- UTILITY COMPANY
- Coordinates
- 30.517, -82.033
Large trees snapped and down across power lines.
Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 20, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $2,000
- 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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 20, 1:18 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 1:18 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 218 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2002 CURRENTLY...SURFACE TROUGH FROM THE CAROLINAS TO ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND NORTHEAST FLORIDA. SHORT WAVE TROUGH DROPPING SOUTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL GA. THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY ERUPTING ALONG I-10 IN NORTH FLORIDA. MODELS/ZFP...UNMODIFIED MORNING SOUNDINGS ALREADY SHOWED CAPE OF 4100+J AND LIFTED INDEX -8 WITH CAP OF 3 DEGREES. AFTER CAP IS BROKEN SHOULD SEE A ROUND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. MAIN CONCERNS WILL BE THE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING (FROM HIGH CAPE AND PW) AND POSSIBLE PULSE SEVERE STORMS. SURFACE TROUGH CONTINUES OVER THE REGION WITH SHORT WAVE DROPPING SOUTHEAST THRU SUNDAY...AND CLOSING OFF ACROSS GEORGIA AND ALABAMA. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT THERE WILL BE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT MOISTURE AND LIFT TO SEE NUMEROUS MAINLY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. WITH MEAN 1000-500 MB WIND FLOW GENERALLY WEST OR SOUTHWEST...WILL SEE ACTIVITY FIRST FORM NEAR GULF COAST AND SPREAD EAST...WITH MOST OF THE ACTIVITY NEAR EAST COAST IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVE. HEAT INDICES ARE RUNNING 105 TO 110 DEGREES TODAY AND WILL SEE AT LEAST 105 SUNDAY. WILL HEADLINE THIS. PRELIM AMG TT 075/093 072/094 074 08464 SSI TT 078/090 077/092 076 08464 JAX TT 076/093 073/093 075 08464 SGJ TT 077/090 075/093 077 08464 GNV TT 074/093 073/093 074 08363 OCF TT 074/092 074/093 074 08353= .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. PP
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 11:15 AM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-202200- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1215 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2002 ...HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 103 AND 108 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON... ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE... TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB TO BETWEEN 94 TO 98 DEGREES IN MOST INLAND LOCATIONS...RESULTING IN HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 103 AND 108 DEGREES DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. IF ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES...TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS IN SHADED AREAS AND DRINK PLENTY OF NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE FROM MID-AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH. ALL STORMS WILL CONTAIN LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES. SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO SELF-ACTIVATE AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. CARROLL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:18 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Missouri, July 20 to 22, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 20, 2002
- Heat in Maryland, July 20, 2002
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 20, 2002
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 20, 2002
- Heat in Illinois, July 20 to 22, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 20 to 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, July 20, 2002
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, July 2002
Sources
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: 5306721.