2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 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 Jun 7, 1:02 PM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 202 PM EDT FRI JUN 7 2002 OVERVIEW:AFTERNOON CU FIELD BEHIND FRONT OVER CWA WITH DEVELOPING CONVECTION. THIS COVERED BY CURRENT FORECASTS, THOUGH WILL MONITOR POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT INTO SOUTH PART OF NORTH ZONES. SHORT TERM: UPPER RIDGE TO PREVAIL OVER SOUTHEAST THROUGH SUNDAY. AT SURFACE LOOK FOR WEAK WEDGE TO DEVELOP. THIS WILL BRING CLOUDS OVER NORTH TONIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY AND LOWER HIGHS SATURDAY BELOW GUIDANCE. SUNDAY LOOKS DRY AND A LITTLE WARMER. COLD FRONT MOVES TO ALONG FL BORDER AND STALLS. WILL KEEP RESIDUAL POPS IN SOUTH SATURDAY DUE CONTINUITY, BUT FEEL DYNAMICS TOO WEAK TO SUPPORT. TEMPERATURES: WENT BELOW GUIDANCE ON LOWS AND HIGHS SATURDAY DUE WEAK WEDGE. GUIDANCE LOOKS A LITTLE HIGH THU-FRI. EXTENDED: MODELS DIFFER. PREFERRED SOLUTION FOR NOW IS TO KEEP DRY THROUGH TUE. POPS WED-THUR AHEAD OF FROPA THURSDAY AFTERNOON OR NIGHT AND DRY FRIDAY. HPC LOOKS FOR SLOWER SOLUTION. AVN HAS BEEN FAST LAST FEW DAYS. IF FRONT STALLS AS HPC SUGGESTS, THEN LATER SHIFTS MAY ADD POPS FRI. OVERALL, CONTINUE TO QUESTION AVN SOLUTION. FORECAST CONFIDENCE: MODERATE SHORT AND MID WITH LESS WED-FRI ATL 68 81 63 83 / 00 10 00 10 AHN 67 78 61 83 / 10 10 00 10 GVL 65 78 59 82 / 10 10 00 10 RMG 65 86 62 85 / 00 10 00 10 CSG 72 86 67 85 / 30 10 00 10 MCN 69 84 64 86 / 30 10 00 10 .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.
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-071745- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1047 AM EDT FRI JUN 7 2002 ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT OVER NORTH GEORGIA WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON THEN BECOME STATIONARY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE STATE...PUSHING THE COLD FRONT INTO NORTH FLORIDA BY EARLY SATURDAY. .PRIMARY HAZARD... THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DISCUSSION... COLD FRONT OVER NORTH GEORGIA THIS MORNING WILL MOVE SOUTH INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON...PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. WITH LIFTED INDICES 0 TO MINUS 2 AND CAPES GENERALLY LESS THAN A THOUSAND...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. .FOR SPOTTERS... ACTIVATION OF SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS ARE NOT EXPECTED FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. && 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 flash flood, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
The Bleckley county 911 center reported that lightning struck and set a tree on fire.
The Peach county 911 center reported that several roads were flooded as drainage ditches overflowed in the far northwest part of the county between Byron and the Crawford county border.
The Crawford county 911 center reported that several roads were under water and impassible in the rural southeastern part of the county near the Peach county border. Radar estimates indicated that over 6 inches of rain had fallen in this area in less than a six hour period of time.
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, June 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: 5302329, 5302249, 5302248.