1 heavy rain, 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 New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 6, 6:20 PM EST, 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 720 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002 WL ISSUE AN UPDT TO THE ZNS...MAINLY TO ADD THE CHC OF TSTMS ACRS LNG ISL...NYC AND METRO NJ TIL MIDN. ALSO...IT APPEARS THAT THE RAIN WL BE ENDING A BIT ERYR THAN CURRENT FCSTS INDICATE. SO WL ALSO REFINE THE TIMING OF THE END OF THE PCPN OVR ALL ZNS...ERY IN THE MRNG OVR WRN ZNS AND BY MID MRNG ERN ZNS. NO RESIDUAL HI CLDS INDICATED BY GUID ONCE THE RAIN ENDS...SO SKIES WL BCM SUNNY ACRS THE ENTR FCST AREA. WL ALSO MAKE THIS CHG AS WELL. MARINE...CONT SCA OVRNGT AS NE WNDS AND SEAS INCR WITH APCHG LO CNTR. WL ALSO KP CHC TSTMS OVR OCEAN WTRS TIL MIDN. .OKX... CT...FLOOD WATCH FOR TNGT FOR CTZ005>012. NJ...FLOOD WATCH FOR TNGT FOR NJZ002>006-011. NY...FLOOD WATCH FOR TNGT FOR NYZ067>081. MARINE...SCA FOR ALL WATERS. EY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Two and a half to three inches of rain resulted in a roof collapse at the Coca-Cola Building at 118 Woonachie Avenue in Carlstadt.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Jersey in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New Jersey, 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: 5309736.