1 hail, 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 12, 1:50 PM EST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 250 PM EDT SUN AUG 12 2001 CURRENTLY...DRY MID LEVEL AIR AND SUBSIDENCE IS HELPING TO SUPPRESS CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE FA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH ONLY A FEW SHOWERS NOTED ALONG THE EAST COAST SEA BREEZE AS I WRITE. LOOKS AS THOUGH CONVECTION WILL BE VERY LATE TO START AND MAINLY FOCUSED OVER INTERIOR COASTAL ZONES AND INLAND LOCATIONS WHERE BEST BOUNDARY COLLISIONS TAKES PLACE AND 5 PM PACKAGE WILL REFLECT THIS. SHORT TERM...MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT THIS AFTERNOON. ATLANTIC UPPER RIDGE AND ATTENDANT SURFACE RIDGE AXIS ACROSS THE N-CENTRAL PENINSULA WILL HOLD THROUGH MONDAY...THEN DRIFT SOUTH TO THE NEAR THE LAKE BY LATE ON TUESDAY AS AN UPPER TROUGH DEVELOPS ALONG THE EAST COAST WITH AN ATTENDANT FRONTAL BOUNDARY SAGGING SOUTH INTO THE SERN GULF STATES. END RESULT FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS WILL BE A STATUS-QUO WITH LATE NIGHT THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON CONVECTION NORTH...AND AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACTIVITY ELSEWHERE. MAV POPS CONTINUE TO LOW THROUGH THE PERIOD...SO WILL FAVOR A BLEND OF FWC/FAN WITH 30-40% DURING THE DAY...AND 20% FOR THE EVENING HOURS. EXTENDED...LITTLE CHANGE EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY AS SURFACE RIDGE AXIS PERSISTS OVER THE SOUTH-CENTRAL PENINSULA. BEYOND THIS THE ATLANTIC UPPER RIDGE BUILDS WEST FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH THE SURFACE RIDGE AXIS ADVANCING NORTH WHICH WILL BRIEFLY TRANSITION THE FA INTO A EAST/SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW REGIME WITH LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION. BY SATURDAY THOUGH ANOTHER UPSTREAM TROUGH MAY SUPPRESS THE RIDGE BACK TO THE SOUTH AGAIN WITH YET ANOTHER TRANSITION TO SWLY FLOW NORTH...AND WEAK FLOW CENTRAL AND SOUTH. SEEING THAT THESE TRENDS MAY CHANGE AGAIN OVER THE NEXT FIVE DAYS...WILL KEEP CURRENT TIMING AND COVERAGE OF POPS AS IS FOR NOW. MARINE...SFC RIDGE AXIS MEANDERING ABOUT THE PENINSULA DURING THE NEXT FIVE DAYS WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT TRANQUIL WIND/SEA STATES WITH AFTERNOON ONSHORE SEA BREEZE COMPONENT DEVELOPING NEAR THE COAST EACH DAY. NO HIGHLIGHTS EXPECTED. THANKS FOR COORD KMLB. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS TPA BB 076/092 076/091 2424 FMY BB 075/093 075/092 3434 .TBW...NONE. MCMICHAEL
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Charlotte county emergency management reported golf ball sized hail along Interstate 75 near Airport Road in Punta Gorda.
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: 5266220.