Thunderstorm Wind, Coffee
- When
- May 13, 9:09 PM EST
- Where
- Coffee County, Broxton
- Property damage
- $100
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.633, -82.900
Large trees uprooted on River Road.
Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 13, 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
- $100
- 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 13, 6:40 PM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 6:40 PM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 740 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002 CURRENTLY...SFC COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED CONVECTION EXTENDING FROM KDHN IN SOUTHEAST AL TO THE CENTRAL GA/SC BORDER NEAR KACS. MOST RECENT LOCAL STORM REPORTS FROM ATL HAVE BEEN DUE TO WIND DAMAGE WITH GUSTS 3O TO 40 KTS REPORTED IN THE CONVECTIVE LINE PER THE 23Z METARS. THE SHORT WV/WEST COAST SEA BREEZE INDUCED CONVECTION ACROSS OUR EASTERN FL ZONES THIS AFTERNOON HAS MOVED OFF OVER THE ATLANTIC NEAR 130 NM OFF SHORE. TEMPS ARE LINGERING IN THE MID 80S AND DEW PTS JUICY IN UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S. SW WINDS HAVE BEEN RATHER GUSTY OVER N FL...UP TO 25 KTS LAST HOUR. WEAK SEA BREEZE CONVERGENCE STILL VIS IN OBS ALONG EAST COAST WITH S WINDS AT SSI...SE AT SGJ AND INLAND SW. TONIGHT...FOR GA ZONES WILL BUMP UP POP BY 10% AND WORD GA AND N FL ZONES FOR CLEARING TOWARDS MORNING AS FRONT PRESSES THROUGH NEAR MIDNIGHT. WILL ALSO TAKE OUT EVENING WORDING FOR CONVECTION. GIVEN MOST RECENT OBS AND ATL REPORTS...WILL INCLUDE BREEZY FOR WINDS TONIGHT ALL ZONES. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO PUSH ACROSS N FL BY 12Z. WILL KEEP 20% OVER THE S TO ACCOUNT FOR FRONTAL PRESENCE TUE. MARINE...SCEC FOR TONIGHT ALL ZONES...MAY BUMP UP TO SCA OVER GA WATERS DUE TO WINDS BUT WILL WAIT UNTIL CLOSER TO ISSUANCE TIME TO DECIDE. .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. BROYLES/TRABERT
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 13, 2002
- Flooding in Alaska, May 13 to 21, 2002
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Flood in Pennsylvania, May 13 to 14, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 13, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, May 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: 5290563.