1 waterspout, 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 11, 1:20 AM EST, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 220 AM EDT SAT AUG 11 2001 88-D SHOWS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AT THIS HOUR...BOTH OVER LAND AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...WHERE THERE WERE NONE AT THIS TIME LAST NIGHT. YET THE TLH EVENING SOUNDING WAS NEITHER ESPECIALLY MOIST NOR INORDINATELY UNSTABLE. THE SHORT WAVE ASSOCIATED WITH THE THE REMAINS OF TS BARRY STUBBORNLY PERSISTS TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF US. IT APPEARS THE CURRENT SHOWERS PORTEND A DAY OR AT LEAST AN AFTERNOON OF ACTIVE CONVECTION FOR SATURDAY...WITHOUT THE DRY AIR ALOFT WHICH HELPED SUPPRESS FRIDAY. MEANWHILE...WE ARE ALREADY SEEING FOG AT SOME AREA LOCATIONS...NAMELY TLH AND ABY...SO WILL LIKELY HAVE LOCALIZED PATCHY DENSE FOG LATER THIS MORNING. MARINE CONDITIONS ARE BENIGN. MODEL DISCUSSION: SHORT RANGE MODELS KEEP A VORT MAX OVER THE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE NEAR TERM AND DEVELOPS A 500 MB SHORT WAVE ON SATURDAY. ONCE AGAIN THE 1000-700 MB MEAN FLOW IS FORECAST TO BE SOUTHWEST AT AROUND 10 KNOTS...TYPICALLY A WET PATTERN. TODAY... MODEL POPS AND OUR LOCAL SEABREEZE STUDY AGREE ON CHANCE OVER MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA...CERTAINLY NOT GOOD NEWS FOR RESIDENTS OF LOCAL AREAS ALREADY FLOODED. WITH SLOW MOVING BOUNDARY ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI...AND PERSISTENT SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW...WILL SEE DEEP LAYER MOISTURE OVER THE CWA. THUS WILL EVALUATE WHETHER TO GO ABOVE GUIDANCE AND SEA BREEZE STUDY AND PITCH LIKELY POPS OVER NORTH FLORIDA AT LEAST. MARINE WINDS ARE FORECAST TO CONTINUE WEST TO SOUTHWEST AROUND 10 KNOTS THROUGH THE PERIOD...REMAINING BELOW SCEC CRITERIA. EXTENDED (MONDAY-FRIDAY): MEDIUM RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO FORECAST A WET WEEK WITH SOME DRYING INDICATED ON FRIDAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE CWA ON TUESDAY...BUT WILL LIKELY STALL AND/OR WASH OUT BEFORE IT PASSES THROUGH OUR FA. PROXIMITY OF THE FRONT WILL PROBABLY ENHANCE AFTERNOON CONVECTION, SO WILL CONTINUE POPS AT OR ABOVE CLIMATOLOGY. MARINE: NO HIGHLIGHTS EXPECTED. FIRE WEATHER: NO HIGHLIGHTS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... TLH 90 70 90 71 6463 PFN 86 76 87 76 6463 DHN 87 72 88 72 6463 ABY 89 73 89 72 6463 VLD 91 71 92 72 6463 .TLH... AL...NONE GA...NONE FL...NONE AFD
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-111015- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 600 AM EDT SAT AUG 11 2001 EARLY MORNING FOG WILL GIVE WAY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG...BUT ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE VIA OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TLH/ OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS. AFD
FLZ012-014-015-111300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 826 AM EDT SAT AUG 11 2001 AT 713 AM CDT...THE GULF COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A WATERSPOUT IN SAINT JOSEPHS BAY. ALTHOUGH THE WATERSPOUT HAD ALREADY DISSIPATED...CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR WATERSPOUTS THIS MORNING. IF A WATERSPOUT IS SIGHTED...MOVE AT A 90 DEGREE ANGLE AWAY FROM ITS APPARENT MOTION TO AVOID IT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER UPDATES. TJT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
A waterspout formed and dissipated in St Joseph Bay. Reported by the Gulf County Sheriff.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, August 2001
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: 5264564.