1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 26, 2:15 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 215 PM EST TUE MAR 26 2002 THE AREA OF CONVECTION FROM SOUTH-CENTRAL GEORGIA...TO SE AL TO FL PANHANDLE. IT CONTINUES TO PUSH EAST ACROSS THE AREA. A FEW STORMS HAVE APPROACHED SEVERE LIMITS...BUT NO WARNINGS EXCEPT COASTAL HAVE BEEN ISSUED AT THIS TIME. SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATING BOUNDARY FROM NEAR MOB...NE TO JUST WEST OF MGM. THETA-E SURGE OF MID-UPR 60 DEWPOINTS INTO THIS AREA...AS WELL AS MSAS LI FIELDS TO -6. LOW THREAT OF A SEVERE STORM OR TWO WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON & EVENING. MAINLY WILL SEE SMALL BOWING SEGMENTS WITHIN SHOWER/TSTMS AREA. HAVE SEEN VELOCITY DATA REACH 30-50KNTS IN REAR INFLOW JET AREA...BUT THIS HAS NOT PROPAGATED TO SURFACE YET. WILL KEEP STRONG WORDING IN ZONES FOR THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE...MODELS HAVE BOUNDARY COMING THROUGH OVERNIGHT. AVN FASTER THAN ETA & IT HOLDS ONTO QPF & MOISTURE FIELDS LONGER TO WED MORNING. A COMPROMISE OF TWO SEEM BEST SOLUTION. ON WEDNESDAY... SURFACE RIDGE PATTERN BUILDS INTO AREA WITH DRYING TREND ON NW WIND FLOW...& A BIT COOLER TEMPS. SURFACE HIGH CENTER STAYS NORTH OF CWA & MOVES E-SE. BY FRI...ETA HAS A WEAK SURFACE LOW ON REMAINS OF THE BOUNDARY OVER S FL...BUT MOSTLY SUNNY & MILD FOR N FL & CWA. NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN...SLIGHT...THAN WOULD BE POSSIBLY SAT AFTERNOON WITH WEAK WARM FRONT LIFTING NORTHWARD FROM DEVELOPING LOW IN TEXAS. SUNDAY MAY BE A BIT MORE AS LOW LIFTS TO CENTRAL OHIO VALLEY & COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM WEST. BETTER CHANCE MONDAY AS BOUNDARY DRIFTS CLOSER TO CWA. MODEL TEMPS CONSISTENT & WILL USE BLEND. MARINE: WILL KEEP SCEC FOR ALL COASTAL LEGS TONIGHT...WITH EXPECTED INCREASING WINDS & AMOUNT OF CONVECTION. IT MAY LAST INTO WEDNESDAY. FIRE WX: NO CONCERNS TODAY. ON WEDNESDAY...AS DRY AIR FILTERS INTO AREA & WINDS ARE 10-15 MPH...A WATCH WILL BE ISSUED FOR INLAND FL COUNTIES. PRELIM NUMBERS... TLH 054 075 042 077 +-00 PFN 056 073 049 074 +-00 DHN 050 071 042 074 +-00 ABY 054 071 042 074 +-00 VLD 058 075 046 077 8-00 .TLH... .AL...NONE. .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. MCT
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-262300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1200 PM EST TUE MAR 26 2002 ...SCATTERED STRONG STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE THROUGH SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND. THIS DOES INCLUDE TALLAHASSEE. THE FRONT WILL DEVELOP SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE OVERALL THREAT FOR ANY SEVERE STORMS IS LOW...BUT AN ISOLATED STRONG STORM WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LATER TONIGHT...THE FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH AND SWITCH THE WINDS TO THE WEST THEN NORTHWEST WITH COOLER AND DRIER AIR. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE VIA OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TLH/ OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS. 7-TREXLER
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:28 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning sparked a fire which destroyed a warehouse on Highway 19 just south of Pelham.
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: 5293570.