Thunderstorm Wind, Charlton
- When
- June 14, 8:30 PM EST
- Where
- Charlton County, 5 mi N of Folkston
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- UTILITY COMPANY
- Coordinates
- 30.900, -82.017
Large pines downed onto power lines. Along Highway 252.
Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 14, 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
- $5,000
- 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 Jun 14, 8:12 PM EST, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 8:12 PM EST, 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 912 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 CLUSTERS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SE GA...OUT AHEAD OF COLD FRONT WHICH WAS ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA AND GEORGIA. STORMS HAVE SHOWN INTENSIFICATION AS THEY MOVE NEAR THE OKEFENOKEE SWAMP AND ALSO NEAR THE SEABREEZE BOUNDARY ALONG THE COASTLINE. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO GO LIKELY POPS ALONG SE GA COAST. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. ALL OTHER POPS LOOK GOOD AND WILL CONTINUE THEM THROUGHOUT NIGHT WITH APPROACH OF FRONT AND SHORT WAVE TROUGH. MARINE FORECAST WAS RECENTLY UPDATED TO EMPHASIZE WINDS AND SEAS HIGHER NEAR STORMS. .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. PP/JH
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:32 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
- Hail in Colorado, June 14, 2002
- Flash Flood in New York, June 14, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 14, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in New York, June 14 to 15, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 14, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 14, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 14, 2002
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 14, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 14, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 14, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 14, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 14, 2002
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, June 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: 5300948.