Name: Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 10, 2002
Start: 2002-05-10T18:52
End: 2002-05-10T18:52
Location: Georgia

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $1,000
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 May 10, 1:06 PM EST, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 1:06 PM EST, 5 hours 46 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
206 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2002

PUBLIC...
VISIBLE IMAGERY SHOWING WIDESPREAD FAIR-WEATHER CU ACROSS CWA...
EXCEPT FOR LOCATIONS IN PROXIMITY OF OKEFENOKEE NWR WILDFIRE. GULF
AND ATLANTIC SEA BREEZES WERE FORMING. A SHEARED VORT MAX WAS EDGING
SOUTH OVER FLORIDA COUNTIES...PROVIDING THIN CIRRUS SHIELD.

APPEARS BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN THROUGH THE WEEKEND WILL OCCUR THIS
AFTERNOON/EVENING AS TEMPS ALOFT HAVE COOLED. FLY-IN-THE OINTMENT
WILL BE PESKY H7 HIGH OVER CWA THAT SIMPLY WONT GO AWAY. ONCE
AGAIN...IT APPEARS INLAND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA WILL BE AREA TO WATCH
FOR SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AS SEA-BREEZES COLLIDE LATER THIS
AFTERNOON WITH PWATS TOPPING NEAR 1.5 INCHES. WILL CONTINUE 20
PERCENT POPS FOR THIS AREA...WITH ZERO POPS ELSEWHERE.

AS ADVERTISED...UNSEASONABLY WARM AND DRY WEATHER PATTERN WILL
CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH MAINLY AFTERNOON CLOUDS. WILL
CONTINUE SMOKEY WORDING FOR AFFECTED COUNTIES.

EXTENDED...
NEXT FRONT WILL MOVE THRU THE CWA ON TUESDAY WITH SOME PRECIP
HOPEFULLY. EXPECT TEMPS TO DROP 5-10 DEG. DRIER WEATHER IN STORE BY
WEDNESDAY WITH TEMPS SLOWLY CLIMBING.

MARINE...
NO HIGHLIGHTS. SOUTH WINDS AT NIGHT BECOME SE EACH AFTN. WINDS WILL
GENERALLY BE LESS THAN 15 KT UNTIL FRONT APPROACHES LATE MONDAY.

RECORD HIGHS...
     TODAY
AMG  93 (1955)
SSI  92 (1952)
JAX  93 (1899)
SGJ  93 (1963)
GNV  95 (1962)
OCF  99 (1975)

PRELIM...
AMG BB 068/091 068/090 068 16200
SSI BB 073/084 073/085 072 16000
JAX BB 070/089 068/089 069 16000
SGJ BB 070/085 071/086 071 16000
GNV BB 066/092 067/093 068 16000
OCF BB 068/093 068/093 068 16000=

.JAX...
.GA...NONE.
.FL...NONE.

ZAPPE

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Pierce

When: May 10, 6:52 PM EST
Where: Pierce County, 5 mi S of Bristol
Property damage: $1,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 31.383, -82.217

Trees down on road and power lines.

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

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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: 5290556.