1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 1:25 AM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
225 AM EDT THU AUG 2 2001
HEAVIEST RAINFALL PAST 24 HOURS FELL OVER THE SOUTHERN HALVES OF
MIAMI-DADE AND MAINLAND MONROE COUNTIES WITH 4 INCHES OR MORE IN
THESE AREAS. MOST OF THESE AMOUNTS WERE OUTSIDE THE MIAMI-DADE METRO
AREA REPORTING STATIONS. MAX ESTIMATES FROM KAMX RADAR INDICATE 6 TO
8 INCHES OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST CORNER OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY.
TOTAL FOR SAME PERIOD AT CACHE (EVERGLADES N.P. HEADQUARTERS) IN
THAT REGION WAS 6.25 INCHES. ALL OTHER OBSERVATIONS OVER SOUTH
FLORIDA ALSO MATCHED WELL WITH RADAR DATA. GENERAL TOTALS OUTSIDE OF
AREA ALREADY DISCUSSED WERE 1 TO 3 INCHES EASTERN COUNTIES AND AN
INCH OR LESS WESTERN HALF.
AXIS OF TROPICAL WAVE IN THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO IS FORECAST BY
MODELS TO CONTINUE MOVING WEST BUT PIVOTING AROUND NORTHERN EXTENT.
WILL END UP STRETCHED ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE GULF BY 48
HOURS...IF IT DEVELOPS NO FURTHER. RIDGE ACROSS THE CAROLINAS WILL
REMAIN THERE TODAY...THEN BEGIN MOVING SOUTH FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY
NIGHT. STRONG LOW-LEVEL SOUTHEAST FLOW OVER SOUTH FLORIDA WILL
CONTINUE TO DRAG MARINE SHOWERS/STORMS ACROSS THE REGION THROUGHOUT
TODAY. WILL AGREE WITH MODEL POPS CATEGORICAL INTO TONIGHT. WILL
ALSO CONTINUE FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TODAY SINCE PRECIPITABLE WATER
WELL OVER TWO INCHES AND RAIN CONTINUING OVER AREAS ALREADY FAIRLY
SATURATED. WILL CONTINUE LIKELY POPS (FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST
PACKAGE) FOR FRIDAY. 850 MB FLOW WILL BECOME SOUTHWESTERLY...
PRECIPITABLE WATER WILL REMAIN HIGH AND MORE SUNSHINE WILL ALLOW FOR
GOOD CONVECTION. MODEL TEMPERATURES LOOK REASONABLE THROUGH 48 HOURS.
IN THE EXTENDED PERIODS...PROBLEM ARISES WITH AVN AS IT STIRS UP A
CLOSED OFF SURFACE LOW CENTRAL FLORIDA AND MOVES IT EAST. THIS
SCENARIO PRODUCES SOUTHWEST/WEST FLOW ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA THROUGH
THE WEEKEND. FEEL THIS IS AN UNLIKELY DEVELOPMENT SINCE 500 MB LOW
WELL TO THE NORTHEAST OFF THE CAROLINA COAST. WILL KEEP WINDS
GENERALLY SOUTHEAST/SOUTH SATURDAY. RIDGE WILL BE OVER SOUTH FLORIDA
SUNDAY AND WINDS SHOULD BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE. AS RIDGE MOVES NORTH
EARLY NEXT WEEK...WINDS WILL BECOME SOUTHEASTERLY ONCE AGAIN. WILL
KEEP POPS GOOD CHANCE ALL ZONES THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIODS AS
MOISTURE WILL REMAIN HIGH.
WILL KEEP SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY ALL WATERS (EXCEPT LAKE) TODAY...BUT
DECREASING IN THE AFTERNOON. GRADIENT WILL LIGHTEN UP EVEN MORE
FRIDAY NIGHT AS RIDGE BEGINS TO MOVE SOUTH. WINDS AND SEAS SHOULD
COME TO A REST BY SUNDAY WITH RIDGE OVERHEAD.
NO PROBLEMS IN FIRE WEATHER.
PBI TT 084/074 088/075 089 24+87
FLL TT 084/074 088/075 089 24+87
M*IA TT 084/074 088/075 089 24+87
APF TT 083/074 087/075 088 24+87
.MIA...FLOOD WATCH ALL OF SOUTH FLORIDA TODAY
SCA ALL OF SOUTH FLORIDA WATERS TODAY EXCEPT LAKE OKEECHOBEE.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado touched down near Greenbriar Drive and moved west northwest. A Chickee Hut at the Ann Marie Motel was damaged as were a fence and a portion of the motel roof. Power lines were blown down onto I-95 and trees were uprooted and street signs blown down along the path.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 2001Warnings 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: 5262242.