1 lightning, 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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 5, 8:45 AM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 945 AM EDT SUN AUG 05 2001 CURRENT...TS BARRY CENTERED ABOUT 120 MILES SOUTHWEST OF APALACHICOLA FLORIDA AROUND 8 AM. TROF EXTENDS FROM PROXIMITY OF BARRY TO N FL...THEN SE OFF THE FL E COAST. THIS IS LIKELY THE REMNANTS OF THE OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT MOVED THRU THE AREA A FEW DAYS AGO...AND IS PUSHING BACK N IN RESPONSE TO INCREASING S-SE FLOW. RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN AND A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS PUSHING INTO THE SUWANNEE VALLEY FROM THE SOUTH WEST. THERE WERE A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTHEAST GEORGIA/NORTHEAST FLORIDA AREA. THE COVERAGE AND INTENSITY OF THE 7 RAIN IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE AS THE DAY PROGRESS. THE CURRENT PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD...HOWEVER WILL PROBABLY UPDATE ZONE PACKAGE TO DO CLEANUP. .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. SCOTT
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040- GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-052100- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL NOON EDT SUN AUG 5 2001 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO RAPIDLY DEVELOP AND BECOME NUMEROUS. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF UP TO ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR. WHILE NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED... SPOTTERS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLITY STORMS PRODUCING LOWLAND FLOODING IN SOME AREAS. PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING OR RAINFALL REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THE ONSHORE FLOW WILL INCREASE THE THREAT FOR RIP CURRENTS AT AREA BEACHES. N FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Boy was struck behind his Pineverde Lane home. Child remained comatose until 08/10/01 when he was pronounced dead.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Duval | 2001-08-10 | 11 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
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: 5262147.