Name: Flash Flood in Florida, August 6 to 9, 2001
Start: 2001-08-06T18:00
End: 2001-08-09T18:00
Location: Florida

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $1.5 million
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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 6, 12:30 PM EST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 12:30 PM EST, 5 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
130 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2001

SYNOPSIS: TROPICAL DEPRESSION BARRY CONTINUES MOVING NORTHWEST
ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA, AND THE ASSOCIATED CONVECTIVE BANDS ARE
LINGERING ACROSS OUR FORECAST AREA. THESE NARROW ZONES OF TRAINING
CELLS ARE PRODUCING TREMENDOUS RAINFALL. EVENTUALLY, THESE HEAVY
RAIN BANDS SHOULD DIMINISH AS BARRYS CIRCULATION MOVES AWAY. BUT AS
OTHER LANDFALLING TROPICAL CYCLONES HAVE TAUGHT US, ITS DIFFICULT
TO TIME EXACTLY WHEN THIS WILL HAPPEN. IT SEEMS PRUDENT TO RE-ISSUE
THE FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION: THE 12 UTC SHORT RANGE MODELS TAKE THE CENTER OF BARRY
INTO MISSOURI BY WEDNESDAY, AND DEVELOP A RIDGE ACROSS THE FORECAST
AREA. THE DEEP LAYER MOISTURE SHOULD GRADUALLY DECREASE, RESULTING
IN A DOWNWARD TREND IN POPS. WILL FOLLOW A BLEND OF MAV AND FWC.

EXTENDED (THURSDAY-MONDAY): THE LATEST MRF AND ECMWF MAINTAIN
RIDGING ACROSS OUR AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. THIS IS A FAIRLY TYPICAL
PATTERN, SO WILL STICK WITH CHANCE POPS AND CLIMO TEMPERATURES (IN
AGREEMENT WITH THE LATEST MRF MOS).

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS:
TLH 72 89 72 92 5735
PFN 76 86 76 89 5635
DHN 72 88 73 91 5635
ABY 72 88 73 92 5735
VLD 70 91 71 94 5735

.TLH...
AL...FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES.
GA...FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES.
FL...FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES.

FOURNIER

The radar

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Leon

When: August 6, 6:00 PM EST to August 9, 6:00 PM EST
Where: Leon County, South Portion
Property damage: $1.5 million
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 30.458, -84.278 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Runoff from up to 11 inches of rain in much of central and northern Leon County flowed downstream into the southern part of the county, and caused extensive flooding of the Cascade Lakes, Liberty Ridge and Lake Bradford subdivisions, as well as the Munson Slough basin. Floodwaters, rising at a rate of a foot per hour initially, closed numerous roads including Tomberlin, Oak Ridge and State Road 61 north of Oak Ridge Road. Of the nearly 100 homes affected, 19 single-family dwellings, five mobile homes and 18 apartments were damaged. Within a few days, water levels eased, then began to slowly recede. The American Red Cross set up a shelter in Woodville for evacuees, many who were isolated and unable to use water wells or septic tanks. A boil order was issued for the affected areas. Reported by the Leon County EMA and Florida DEM.

What these are

Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

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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: 5264663.