Thunderstorm Wind, St. Johns
- When
- July 13, 6:10 PM EST
- Where
- St. Johns County, Palm Vly
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 30.183, -81.383
Large trees and power lines were blown down.
Damaging Wind in Florida, July 13, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 13, 12:33 PM EST, 5 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 12:33 PM EST, 5 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 133 PM EDT FRI JUL 13 2001 CURRENTLY...CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP ALONG AND SOUTH OF CEDAR ISLAND...ST. AUGUSTINE LINE. ELSEWHERE ACROSS CWA...SCATTERED CU WAS DEVELOPING. TEMPERATURES WERE GENERALLY IN THE 85 TO 90 DEGREE RANGE WITH DEW-POINTS RUNNING IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S (QUITE MUGGY). COLD FRONT REMAINS STATIONARY NEAR A KSAV-KMOB LINE. DISCUSSION...PER IR IMAGERY...SHORTWAVE OVER NORTH-CENTRAL GA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH...AND ACROSS CWA THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT. THIS SHORTWAVE WILL DEEPEN THE BROAD TROF OVER THE EASTERN UNITED STATES...ALLOWING THE STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO MIGRATE SOUTH AGAIN. BELIEVE THAT THIS SHORTWAVE...IN COMBINATION WITH APPROACHING FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND TROPICAL AIR-MASS...WILL TRANSLATE INTO WIDESPREAD CONVECTION BY MID-AFTERNOON. WILL CONTINUE SCENARIO OF FRONT MOVING THROUGH OUR CWA TONIGHT INTO EARLY SATURDAY...WITH VERY NOTABLE DRYING IN ITS WAKE. WILL CONTINUE TREND OF LIKELY POPS 1ST PERIOD WITH CLEARING THEREAFTER...EXCEPT RAIN ENDING EARLY PART OF SECOND PERIOD FOR EXTREME SOUTHERN ZONES. ON SUNDAY...GRADUAL MODIFICATION OF THE DRY AIR MASS WITH A RETURN TO SCATTERED DAYTIME CONVECTION...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN ZONES WHERE LOW-LEVEL LIFTING WILL BE GREATEST (I.E., SURFACE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE). TEMPS WILL REMAIN NEAR CLIMO. MARINE...NORTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE BEHIND FRONTAL PASSAGE... WITH SCA CONDITIONS POSSIBLE BEGINNING LATE SATURDAY. THE FLY-IN-THE- OINTMENT WILL BE THE TRACK AND SPEED OF AFOREMENTIONED FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND ATTENDANT PRESSURE GRADIENT. WILL CONTINUE TREND OF INCREASING NORTHERLY WINDS BEGINNING TONIGHT FROM ALTAMAHA SOUND, GA, TO FERNANDINA BEACH, FL WITH SEAS BUILDING TO 4 TO 6 FEET. WINDS AND SEAS WILL HOLD OFF TILL SATURDAY FROM FERNANDINA BEACH TO FLAGLER BEACH. POSSIBLE SCA CONDITIONS BEGINNING LATE SATURDAY. PRELIMG AMG 71/90/67/90 5100 SSI 75/87/73/88 6100 JAX 74/88/70/88 6102 GNV 74/91/71/91 6313 16 .JAX... .FL...NONE. .GA...NONE. ZAPPE
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:12 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Arkansas, July 13, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Colorado, July 13, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, July 13, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 13, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 13, 2001
- Flash Flood in Utah, July 13, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 13, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, July 13, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 13, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Arkansas, July 13, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Colorado, July 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, July 13, 2001
More
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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: 5257704.