Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Inland Dade
- When
- January 5, 2:00 AM EST to 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Inland Dade forecast zone
- Crop damage
- $25 million
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 25.609, -80.499 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Extreme Cold in Florida, January 5, 2001
A freeze occurred throughout the interior sections of south Florida, causing damage to certain crops. Hardest hit were certain vegetable crops with 75% losses in Hendry and east Collier counties and 30% losses in the farming areas of south Miami-Dade county.
Where it happened
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- Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $78 million
- Events
- 3
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 happened
The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
A freeze occurred throughout the interior sections of south Florida, causing damage to certain crops. Hardest hit were certain vegetable crops with 75% losses in Hendry and east Collier counties and 30% losses in the farming areas of south Miami-Dade county. Other crops that were damaged included newly planted sugar cane, ornamentals, and tropical fruits. A heavy frost occurred in the western suburbs of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach metropolitan areas. Several daily minimum temperature records were broken. Selected minimum temperatures included 27 degrees at Belle Glade, 29 degrees in the Homestead agricultural area, 31 degrees in Naples, 39 degrees at Miami International Airport and 43 degrees in Miami Beach.
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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 4, 8:25 PM EST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 8:25 PM EST, 5 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
825 PM EST THU JAN 4 2001
FORECAST IS RIGHT ON TRACK AND NO CHANGES PLANNED. VERY DRY AIR HAS
SETTLED IN OVER SOUTH FLORIDA... AND WITH CLEAR SKIES IT SHOULD BE A
GOOD RADIATION NIGHT ESPECIALLY WHEN THE WINDS DIE OFF LATER
TONIGHT. BUT THE WARMUP WILL FINALLY BEGIN TOMORROW AND THIS TIME
LAST FOR A WHILE.
.MIA...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN GULF STREAM TONIGHT.
FREqEZE WARNING INTERIOR SOUTH FLORIDA TONIGHT.
WIND CHILL ADVISORY EXTREME W COAST AND EXTREME EAST COAST
TONIGHT.The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Inland Collier
- When
- January 5, 2:00 AM EST to 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Inland Collier forecast zone
- Crop damage
- $34 million
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 26.099, -81.381 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Hendry
- When
- January 5, 2:00 AM EST to 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Hendry forecast zone
- Crop damage
- $19 million
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 26.554, -81.166 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill
- Temperatures or wind chills at or below the local warning criteria, or cold that caused deaths.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Frost and Freeze in Florida, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Jersey, January 5, 2001
- Winter Weather in Maryland, January 5, 2001
- Blizzard and Extreme Cold in Alaska, January 5 to 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 5, 2001
- Winter Weather in Virginia, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, January 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Weather in West Virginia, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Maine, January 5 to 6, 2001
More
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, January 2001
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: 5228604, 5228605, 5228606.