1 rip current, 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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 23, 10:03 AM EST, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1103 AM EDT TUE JUL 23 2002 SCT SHWRS OVR AREA THIS AM. HV RCVD CPL RPRTS OF WTRSPTS OFF CRYSTAL CST. LTST LCL SNDG SHWG WET ALL THE WAY UP WITH PW AT 2.16 AND UNMODIFIED CAPE 2470. HVY DWNPOURS WL CONT AS IMPULSES ROTATE ARND THE UPR LO OVR THE SE. LTST RUC SHOWG 00Z ETA VERIFIED WELL WI POSN OF SFC FNT...WHICH WL RMN TO OUR W THRU THE FP. RUC ALSO SHWG BEST CONCENTRATE OF PCPN WL BE ALNG THE CST...SHIFTING TO INLAND BY LT AFTN. XPCT TEMPS NR 80 ALNG THE CST TO MID 80S INLAND. SUM BRKS IN THE CLDS ATTM. HWVR CLD CVR SHUD FILL IN SHORTLY HELPING TO KP TEMPS DWN AND THREAT OF TSTMS AT A MIN. WL PIDDLE WI TEMPS IF NECESSARY AND PSBLY POPS. BUT NO MJR CHGS PLANND. MARINE: HEAVY DOWNPOURS DROPPING LOOSE FROM 25KFT TOP CELLS IS REDUCING VSBY IN THE WATERS TODAY. APPEARS ECHO TREND IS SHIFTING HEAVIER RAINS INLAND WHILE OFFSHORE RAIN ARE EASING UP A BIT. SWIRL NOTED IN VSBL OVR CNTRL NC SEEMS TO ASSISTING ENHANCEMENT OF INLAND RAINS AS IT MOVES NE TWD THE VA BRDR. WILL MAINTAIN SW 15 TO 20 KT WINDS AND 4 TO 5 FOOT SEA THIS UPDATE. MONITOR MARINE SANCTUARY CREWS REPORT SW 18 KT SEAS 4 TO 5 FEET SW OF DSLN7. LOOKS LIKE SW FLOW WILL HANG ON INTO THE WEEKEND AS FRONT STAY AND W OF THE COAST. .MHX... CGG-G/COLBY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A 38 year old Virginia man drown while caught in a rip current in Emerald Isle.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Carteret | 2002-07-23 | 38 | Male | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 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: 5303243.