5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 4 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 Jul 30, 4:30 AM EST, 9 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 530 AM EDT TUE JUL 30 2002 230 AM EDT TUE JUL 30 2002 PUBLIC FORECAST DISCUSSION... CURRENT SATELLITE LOOP SHOWS MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES OVER THE STATE THIS MORNING. THERE IS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER THE EASTERN GULF MOVING WEST. THERE IS ALSO A FRONTAL SYSTEM THAT STRETCHES ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY AND DOWN INTO TX WHICH IS BEING PUSHED BY POSITIVELY TILTED UPPER TROUGH. EVENTUALLY THIS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND THE FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL MERGE AS ONE ELONGATED UPPER TROUGH FROM THE MID-ATLANTIC INTO THE CENTRAL GULF BY THU/FRI. AS FOR THE FORECAST LOOKS LIKE AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHRA/TSRA WILL BE THE NORM THRU THE END OF THE WEEK. IT STILL LOOKS LIKE POSSIBLE DRYING OUT THIS WEEKEND. ALL IN ALL CURRENT FORECAST CONTINUES TO LOOK GOOD SO WILL ONLY MAKE A FEW COSMETIC CHANGES. FCSTID = 01 ATL 90 73 89 72 / 40 30 40 30 AHN 93 73 91 71 / 40 30 40 30 GVL 90 71 89 70 / 40 30 40 30 RMG 93 72 91 71 / 40 30 40 30 CSG 94 74 93 73 / 40 20 40 30 MCN 95 73 93 72 / 40 20 40 30 .ATL... GA...NONE. EXPECT FEWER LOW CLOUDS THIS MORNING AND MINIMAL FOG. CU DEVELOPING AROUND 15Z WITH BASES OF 4 THSD TO 5 THSD FT. WINDS WILL HAVE A WESTERLY COMPONENT. STILL A CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. 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.
5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Coweta county 911 center and the public reported pea size hail at several locations around the county, particularly in the Sharpsburg area.
The Morgan county 911 center reported dime size hail.
The public reported dime size hail.
Several newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Marietta Daily Journal, the Columbus Ledger Enquirer, and the Macon Telegraph, as well as the Cobb county Emergency Management Agency and local Atlanta TV stations, reported on a lightning strike and subsequent death to a 49-year old woman from Marietta who was hiking in the Kennesaw National Battlefield park. The woman was hiking on Kennesaw Mountain in the National Battlefield park with her husband and dog. No rain was falling at the time, but thunderstorms surrounded the area with considerable cloud-to-ground lightning activity. The lightning struck the woman at 6:52 pm EDT while she was approximately 30 feet ahead of her husband around a bend in the trail. Her husband found her flat on the ground, immediately after the strike, unconscious, but still alive at the time. She was immediately transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. In addition to this incident, two homes in the Marietta area were set on fire by lightning strikes during this same round of thunderstorms.
The Floyd county 911 center reported that a tree fell down near Berry College and knocked a tree down onto a traffic signal.
An amateur radio operator reported dime to nickel size hail near Johnson's Ferry Road in Marietta, while the public reported dime to nickel size hail in and just east of Marietta. The public also reported dime size hail in Acworth.
The Floyd county 911 center reported that several trees were down off Georgia Highway 101.
An amateur radio operator reported that three trees were blown down, one landing on the roof of a home located just west of Rockmart off U.S. Highway 278, while yet another tree fell down on the roof of an old store in Fish Creek.
The Floyd county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down in the Horse Lake Creek subdivision.
The Floyd county 911 center indicated that street flooding was occurring in the Horse Lake Creek subdivision. In addition, water was reported in one building because of backed up drains.
The Floyd county 911 center reported dime size hail.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Cobb | 2002-07-30 | 49 | Female | Under Tree | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5308642, 5308633, 5308634, 5308738, 5308637, 5308635, 5308636, 5308641, 5308638, 5308639, 5308640.