1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Sep 5, 1:00 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 200 PM EDT THU SEP 5 2002 SATELLITE AND SFC DATA SHOW THE COLD FRONT HAS CONTINUED TO SAG SOUTH AND IS NEAR THE NC/SC BORDER. THERE IS STILL SOME CONVECTION WELL OFFSHORE NEAR THE GULFSTREAM AND THAT ALSO CONTINUES TO SAG SOUTH. SFC HIGH PRES WILL BE IN CONTROL FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...WITH MOSTLY SUNNY...DRY...AND SEASONAL TEMPERATURES EXPECTED. FCST IS MAINLY A TEMP FCST AT LEAST THRU THE WEEKEND. A DEVELOPING COASTAL LOW STARTS TO BRING SOME MSTR ALG THE CST MON NIGHT. SFC HIGH PRES SHOULD KEEP PCP TO THE SOUTH OF THE CWA ON MON. AVN HAS CSTL LOW AND H5 VORT NEAR THE NC CST ON TUE MORNING. WILL ADD CHC PCP ON TUE FOR ALL BUT FAR WRN CTYS. THERE ARE SOME MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN TIMING WITH NEW AVN MUCH FASTER THAN THE PREVIOUS MRF. THERE IS A CHC THAT PCP COULD LINGER INTO WED...BUT WILL LEAVE CHC OUT FOR NOW AND WAIT FOR LATER RUNS AND SOME MODEL CONSISTENCY. MARINE: NE WINDS CONT THRU THE PERIOD. .MHX...NONE. ALS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Five homes here struck by lightning in and around Buxton as well as near Kitty Hawk. Property damagefrom fires occurred with several of the buildings.
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, September 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: 5316595.