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 Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 28, 1:55 PM EST, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 255 PM EDT SUN JUL 28 2002 OVERVIEW: 500 MB RIDGE OVER SOUTHEAST STATES SLOWLY GIVES WAY AS A SHORT WAVE MAKES ITS WAY FROM UPPER MIDWEST ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND GREAT LAKES AREA TO NEAR THE OHIO RIVER BY 12Z TUESDAY. BY THEN THE RIDGE IS LOCATED OFF THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA. ALSO A RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE SOUTHWEST STATES. ENERGY FROM THE SHORT WAVE AND THE WEAKNESS BETWEEN THE TWO RIDGES SETS UP UPPER LEVEL TROFFING OVER THE SOUTHEAST BY TUESDAY EVENING/NIGHT. SHORT TERM: SUBSIDENCE FROM RIDGE IS SUPPRESSING CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON. WOULD EXPECT THE ACTIVITY TO AGAIN DIE OFF RATHER QUICKLY AFTER LOSS OF HEATING. POPS THIS EVENING WILL BE MINIMAL AND PROBABLY MORE IN CENTRAL GEORGIA. SCENARIO IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME FOR MONDAY AND MONDAY EVENING. BETTER SUPPORT IS IN THE PICTURE TUESDAY AS THE TROF BEGINS TO SET UP. WILL STAY CLOSE TO GUIDANCE TEMPS. MAXES RISING A DEGREE OR SO EACH DAY NEXT 2 DAYS UNTIL MORE CLOUDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEXT SYSTEM ARRIVE. EXTENDED: MODELS HAVE SIMILAR VIEWS ON THE WEDNESDAY THRU SUNDAY PATTERN. 500 MB RIDGE CENTERED OFF SE U.S. COAST WEAKENS A BIT AND SLIDES MORE TO THE SOUTH AS TROFFING ALONG THE EASTERN SEABOARD INTO THE GULF CONTINUES THURSDAY THRU SATURDAY. ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT PROGGED TO MOVE INTO NORTH GEORGIA THURSDAY AND INTO NORTHERN FLORIDA BY SATURDAY...THEN PROBABLY STALLING. WILL STAY WITH THE PRESENT SCENARIO OF CHANCE POPS OVER THE ENTIRE CWA WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...THEN DRYING OUT OVER THE NORTH FRIDAY THRU SUNDAY. WILL KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE CENTRAL FROM FRIDAY THRU SUNDAY. FORECAST CONFIDENCE: GOOD CONFIDENCE IN THIS TYPICAL SUMMERTIME PATTERN. MODELS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT. TIMING OF THE NEXT FRONT AFTER MIDWEEK GIVES SOME UNCERTAINTY IN LATER PART OF FORECAST. FCSTID = 22 ATL 73 91 74 91 / 10 20 10 30 AHN 72 94 73 93 / 10 20 10 30 GVL 72 92 73 91 / 10 20 10 30 RMG 73 96 73 94 / 10 20 10 30 CSG 75 95 75 94 / 10 20 10 30 MCN 73 95 74 95 / 10 20 10 30 .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
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Telfair county 911 center reported that a road was washed out in McRae.
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, July 2002
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