Storm Lili impacted the islands of Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia between Sunday September 22 until the early morning of Tuesday September 24, 2002 when the all clear was issued.

The hurricane demonstrated the vulnerability of the Small Island Developing States of the

Tropical Storm Debby developed from a tropical wave which moved into the Lesser Antilles on September 9th, 1994. As the center moved into the Caribbean Sea, the system spread across the Windward Islands bringing intense rainfall, thunderstorms and strong winds while rapidly intensifying to tropical storm strength on September 10. Scattered moderate showers over St. Lucia on the 9th gave way to continuous and more intense rainfall and thunderstorms from about 0700 UTC on Saturday September 10 and lasted for about six hours. St.