1 thunderstorm wind, 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, 2:30 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 330 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001 CURRENTLY...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG SEA/BAY BREEZE BOUNDARIES AND THEN DRIFTING SLOWLY NORTH NORTHWEST. RIDGE AXIS REMAINS FROM JUST NORTH OF BROOKSVILLE TO NEAR MELBOURNE. FORECAST...SURFACE RIDGE AXIS EXPECTED TO DRIFT SLOWLY BACK SOUTH FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AS COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH INTO SOUTHEAST U.S. THEREFORE...SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST FLOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES INTO SATURDAY WITH SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. BY SUNDAY...WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES...BUT THERE SHOULD STILL BE ENOUGH MOISTURE FOR SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE SEA BREEZE. ACROSS THE NORTHERN COUNTIES WINDS WILL SHIFT TO SOUTHWEST WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OVER INLAND AREAS EACH DAY. BY TUESDAY IT APPEARS THAT RIDGE AXIS WILL SHIFT BACK NORTH AGAIN WITH EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW RETURNING. MARINE...NO BIG HIGHLIGHTS AS WINDS WILL REMAIN AT 5 TO 10 KNOTS WITH SEAS LESS THAN 2 FEET THROUGH THE PERIOD. FIRE WEATHER...NO HIGHLIGHTS. PRELIM NUMBERS... TPA 076/092 076/091 3434 FMY 075/092 075/092 3434 .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.
ZALESKIPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
532 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0323 PM CLEARWATER FL .75 INCH HAIL.
08/30/01 PINELLAS EVENT DURATION 3 MINUTES.REPORTED
BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds removed a large section of roof from a mobile home in the Tropicana Mobile Home Park near the intersection McGregor Boulevard and Summerlin Road in Ft. Myers.
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: 5266329.