Name: Damaging Wind in Florida, August 18, 2001
Start: 2001-08-18T12:55
End: 2001-08-18T12:57
Location: Florida

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 18, 2:00 AM CST, 10 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 2:00 AM CST, 10 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
300 AM CDT SAT AUG 18 2001

LARGE H5 TROF CONTINUES TO CHUG INTO THE EASTERN STATES THROUGH
SUNDAY NIGHT WHILE THE RIDGING WEAKENS OVER THE NORTHERN GULF.
SERIES OF MID LEVEL SHORTWAVES EMBEDDED IN SOUTHERN EXTENT OF THE
WESTERLIES LOOK TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY THROUGH
SUNDAY...ALTHOUGH TIMING IS DIFFICULT TO PIN DOWN.  THUNDERSTORM
COMPLEX THAT MOVED ACROSS THE AREA LAST EVENING LEFT AN OUTFLOW
BOUNDARY THAT APPEARS TO BE LOCATED FROM JUST SOUTH OF THE NORTHWEST
FL PANHANDLE TO SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY THEN BACK TO JUST SOUTH OF
PIB PER KMOB RADAR LOOP AND AP PATTERN.  AS A MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE
APPROACHES TODAY AND SURFACE FLOW BECOMES SOUTHWESTERLY WITH THE AID
OF SEA BREEZE CYCLE...EXPECT THE BEST COVERAGE OVER THE COASTAL
COUNTIES AND SOUTHEAST MS...WITH LEAST COVERAGE OVER GZH AREA.  GZH
AREA MAY RECEIVE A BIT MORE COVERAGE TONIGHT AS THE WESTERLY
STEERING FLOW MOVES THE AFTERNOONS CONVECTION THAT WAY DURING THE
EVENING HOURS.  AS THE H5 TROF ADVANCES FURTHER INTO THE SOUTHEAST
STATES...MODELS DISAGREE ON STRENGTH AND TIMING OF EMBEDDED
SHORTWAVES...SO WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS ON SUNDAY ACROSS THE AREA
FOR NOW.

MARINE AND FIRE...NO HIGHLIGHTS.  SOUTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 KNOTS
THROUGH SUNDAY.  SEAS 2 FEET OR LESS.

EXTENDED RANGE...MAY SEE SOME CHANGES TO THE LATTER PORTION OF THE
EXTENDED PERIOD DEPENDING ON WEATHER FEATURES...BUT FOR NOW WILL
JUST LEAVE THE CURRENT EXTENDED PACKAGE AS IS.

PRELIM NUMBERS...
MOB TE 091/074 091/073 092 295242
PNS TE 090/076 091/076 091 295242
DTS TE 089/079 089/079 089 295242
GZH EE 090/072 092/071 093 293332
2R0 TE 092/071 093/067 093 295232
61A TE 092/071 093/068 093 295232

.MOB...
AL...NONE.
FL...NONE.
MS...NONE.

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Santa Rosa

When: August 18, 12:55 PM CST to 12:57 PM CST
Where: Santa Rosa County, Chumuckla
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 30.767, -87.233

Several trees were blown down.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Florida in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Florida, August 2001

Sources

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: 5263614.