4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 May 26, 2:10 PM EST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 310 PM EDT SUN MAY 26 2002 SURFACE RIDGE HAS EASED FAR ENOUGH EAST TO ALLOW AFTERNOON HEATING TO GENERATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST. WILL CARRY 30% NORTH AND WEST OF AN ATLANTA TO CLEVELAND LINE WITH 20% FROM COLUMBUS TO ATHENS AND NO MENTION ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST. DYING COLD FRONT SHOULD DISSIPATE SOMEWHERE JUST NORTH OF THE CWA BY TOMORROW. WILL KEEP LOW CHANCE/ SLIGHT CHANCE SAME AREAS TOMORROW THEN DRY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS UPPER TROUGH AXIS REMAINS JUST EAST OF GEORGIA. BY THURSDAY EAST COAST UPPER TROUGH AXIS MOVES BACK WEST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AS ANOTHER WEAK FRONT APPROACHES BRINGING BACK SCATTERED POPS FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. SATURDAY LOOKS DRY BEHIND FRONT BUT LITTLE SIGNIFICANT THICKNESS COOLING MOSTLY OFFSET BY INCREASED SUNSHINE. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE CENTER MOVES EAST OF GEORGIA BY SUNDAY WITH A START TO SOME MOISTURE INDICATED...BUT CONFIDENCE IN TIMING AND STRENGTH OF THE RETURN STILL A LITTLE TOO LOW TO INTRODUCE POPS IN DAY 7 FORECAST. TEMPERATURES SEASONAL THROUGH THIS FORECAST. FCSTID = 20 ATL 64 86 64 83 / 30 20 20 10 AHN 63 85 63 83 / 20 20 20 10 GVL 62 84 61 81 / 30 30 20 10 RMG 62 85 62 82 / 30 30 20 10 CSG 68 89 67 87 / 20 20 20 10 MCN 67 88 66 86 / 10 10 10 10 .ATL... GA...NONE. MSS 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>113-261800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1120 AM EDT SUN MAY 26 2002 ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .SYNOPSIS... WEAK HIGH PRESSURE TO OUR NORTH OVER THE OHIO VALLEY AND A WEAK LOW IN THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL PREVAIL THROUGH MONDAY. .PRIMARY HAZARD... THE PRIMARY HAZARD WILL BE LIGHTNING ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DISCUSSION... CAPES ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO NEAR 1000 OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER LIMITED MOISTURE AND UPPER DYNAMICS WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF ONLY WIDELY SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE NORTH OF A LINE FROM FRANKLIN TO ATLANTA TO CLEVELAND WHERE THE MOISTURE IS THE GREATEST. ...FOR SPOTTERS... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. && FOR THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AND OTHER WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/FFC.
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 38 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:59 UTC.
4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The National Weather Service's cooperative observer in Greenville reported pea size hail.
An off duty National Weather Service employee reported dime size hail.
The Gordon county 911 center reported dime size hail.
The public reported dime size hail.
The public reported dime size hail.
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, May 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: 5291107, 5291108, 5291106, 5291109, 5291110.