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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 12, 9:21 AM EST, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 930 AM EDT THU JUL 12 2001 CURRENTLY ACTIVE CONVECTION REMAINS ACROSS OFFSHORE WATERS. FOG LIFTING RAPIDLY AND EXPECT TOTAL BURNOFF SHORTLY. 9AM LOCAL TEMPS IN LINE WITH GUIDANCE SO EXPECT MAX TEMPS 90 TO 95 WITH WINDS 10 TO 12 MPH WHICH PLACE HEAT INDEX TO MAX 105 DEGREES. SO WIL NOT MENTION IN ZONES BUT USERS SHUD NOTE THAT A HOT SULTRY AFTERNOON ON TAP. MODELS SHOW E COAST TROF DEEPENING SSW TOWARDS LOCAL AREA WITH UPSTREAM RIDGE ACROSS SRN PLAINS RESPONDING BY RETROGRADING SLOWLY WWD. THIS HELPING TO SHIFT LOW LEVEL TROF OR WEAK COLD FRONT (LOCATED ACROSS NRN GA...CNTRL ALA/MS) FURTHER SEWD. 12Z TLH SOUNDING WITH PWAT 2.14 AND UNMODIFIED CAPE OVER 4K PLUS DAYTIME HEATING...DEEPENING TROF..APPROACHING LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY AND OUTFLOW FROM SEWD MOVING MCS ACROSS MS/ALA SCNTRL. SEA BREEZE A LITTLE HARD TO PINPOINT. TYPE 8( LGT NW) ACROSS PANHANDLE AND TYPE 4 (LGT W) ACROSS BIG BEND INTERACTING WITH APPROACHING BOUNDARY MAY ACTUALLY MAKE FOR A DISTURBED TYPE 11) DAY. EITHER WAY...WITH 1000-700 MB FLOW FROM NW TO W AND JUICY SOUNDING...POTENTIAL FOR AT LEAST ISOLD SEVERE STORMS A GOOD BET WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. (SLGT RISK AREA BRUSHES OUR NRN CWFA). THIS FLOW FAVORS LOWEST POPS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SE ALA AND NRN HALF OF GA AND HIGHEST POPS ACROSS BIG BEND. BUT CONCERNED ABOUT LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING OUTFLOWS FROM APPROACHING MCS AND SEA BREEZE CLASHES ACROSS ESPECIALLY NRN HALF LOCAL AREA SO MAY TWEK UP POPS THERE. DEEP LYR MOISTURE AND WEAK STEERING FLOW ALSO SUGGESTS POSSIBLY OF SMALL SCALE FLOODING. MARINE: HIGH DEVELOPING ACROSS OFFSHORE WATERS AND APPROACHING LOW PRES BOUNDARY TO OUR NORTH TIGHTENING LOCAL GRADIENTS. ADD OFFSHORE CONVECTIONS EFFECT ON WINDS AND SEAS AND AQQ AND PFN BUOYS REPORTING WINDS AROUND 20 KNOTS WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 30 KNOTS AND SEAS 4 FEET. WILL BREAK UP CWF INTO NEARSHORE (10 TO 15 KNOTS) AND OFFSHORE AND INSERT SCEC INTO OFFSHORE (15 TO 20 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS). FIRE WX:NO CONCERNS .TLH... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. BLOCK
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A man suffered minor injuries from a nearby lightning strike. Reported by the Bristol Journal.
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, July 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: 5256690.