1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 30, 9:20 AM EST, 5 hours earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 1020 AM EDT THU AUG 30 2001 SURFACE RIDGE AXIS APPEARS TO BE LOCATED FROM JUST NORTH OF BROOKSVILLE TO NEAR MELBOURNE THIS MORNING WITH EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW SOUTH OF IT AND MAINLY LIGHT AND VARIABLE FLOW NORTH OF THIS LINE. MORNING SOUNDING INDICATING A LITTLE BIT MORE MOISTURE THAN YESTERDAY WITH PW NEAR 1.8...BUT STILL RELATIVELY WEAK STEERING FLOW. CURRENT ZONES APPEAR ON TRACK WITH SCATTERED LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS STILL EXPECTED AND NO UPDATE PLANNED. WINDS OVER COASTAL WATERS KIND OF VARIABLE ACROSS NORTHERN WATERS AT THIS TIME AND EAST SOUTHEAST OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN. WINDS SHOULD BECOME SOUTH EXCEPT ONSHORE NEAR THE COAST ACROSS NORTH AS FORECAST SOON WITH NO BIG CHANGES ANTICIPATED FOR MORNING UPDATE. .TBW...NONE. PRC
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
220 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0610 PM 7 S FT MYERS FL WIND DAMAGE
08/29/01 LEE THUNDERSTORM WINDS
DOWNED TWO LIGHT POLES,
WHICH DAMAGED THREE
VEHICLES AT A MAZDA
DEALERSHIP, UPROOTED A
FEW SMALL TREES AND
DAMAGED THE SIGN AT A
LEXUS DEALERSHIP, AND
BLEW DOWN A LARGE
LIGHTED BILLBOARD SIGN
SUPPORTED BY FIVE LARGE
WOODEN POLES. THIS
DAMAGE REPORTED ALONG
THE 14000 BLOCK OF U.S.
HIGHWAY 41 (TAMIAMI
TRAIL) BETWEEN STATE
ROAD 876 (DANIELS PKWY)
AND COUNTY ROAD 865
(SIX MILE CYPRESS
PKWY). REPORTED BY LEE
COUNTY FIRE AND RESCUE.
EVENT DURATION 10
MINUTES.
0610 PM 7 S FT MYERS FL 1 INCH HAIL
08/29/01 LEE THE PUBLIC REPORTED
QUARTER TO DIME SIZED
HAIL ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY
41 (TAMIAMI TRAIL)
BETWEEN STATE ROAD 876
AND COUNTY ROAD 865.
EVENT DURATION 10
MINUTES.
ZALESKIThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Dime sized hail was reported by an Amateur Radio Operator near the intersection of State Road 590 (Drew Street) and County Road 375 (Highland Avenue) east to U.S. Highway 19 in Clearwater.
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: 5266321.