Name: Flash Flood in Florida, July 15, 2001
Start: 2001-07-15T19:07
End: 2001-07-15T19:07
Location: Florida

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 15, 2:10 PM EST, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:10 PM EST, 4 hours 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
310 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2001

SURFACE TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED WEAK SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTH FLORIDA
THIS AFTERNOON WILL BEGIN TO MOVE NORTH THIS EVENING AND WILL BE
ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA BY MONDAY. THE SURFACE LOW WILL LIKELY
DISSIPATE AS ANOTHER MORE DEFINED LOW DEVELOPS OVER THE GULF OF MEX
JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE AREA. THIS LOW WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY ALMOST
DUE NORTH AND BY TUE MORNING IT WILL BE ABOUT 100-200 NM SOUTH OF
THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. AS THIS HAPPENS THE ATLANTIC RIDGE...NOW OVER
CENTRAL BAHAMAS SHOULD DRIFT NORTH AS WELL AND BY TUE MORNING IT
WILL EXTEND WEST TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE AREA. THIS WILL RESULT IN LOW
LEVEL FLOW SHIFTING FROM MOSTLY SOUTHWEST TONIGHT AND MONDAY TO A
MORE SOUTHEAST FLOW MON NITE THROUGH TUE.

IN TERMS OF PRECIPITATION...SURFACE BOUNDARY ACROSS THE AREA AND
UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE MAKE ME KEEP SCATTERED SHWRS/TSTMS OVER OUR AREA
THIS EVENING WITH A DECREASE AFTERWARDS. MONDAY...DIURNAL HEATING
WILL PROVIDED THE ENERGY NEEDED TO INITIATE AND MAINTAIN CONVECTION.
THE LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL PROVIDE ABUNDANT MOISTURE. CONDITIONS WILL
THEN RETURN TO MORE "NORMAL" CONDITIONS FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR.
NIGHTTIME/EARLY MORNING EAST COAST SHOWERS/TSTMS AND MOSTLY INTERIOR
AFTERNOON TSTMS.

MARINE WISE...WITH THE TROUGH/LOW OVER THE AREA ONCE AGAIN IT WAS
NECESSARY TO  SEPARATE THE NORTHERN ATLANTIC WATERS FROM THE
SOUTHERN ATLANTIC. AS THE SURFACE WINDS OVER THE AREA ARE NOT ONLY
GOING TO BE FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS BUT ALSO DIFFERENT SPEED. IT
ISN'T UNTIL THE FOURTH PERIOD THAT CONDITIONS WILL BE MORE OR LESS
THE SAME OVER THE WHOLE AREA. NEVERTHELESS...WINDS AND SEAS SHOULD
BE BELOW SCEC/SCA CRITERIA FOR THE WHOLE FORECAST PERIODS.

EXTENDED...ATLANTIC RIDGE SHOULD CONTINUE TO DRIFT NORTH AND WILL BE
JUST NORTH OF THE AREA FOR MOST OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD.
HOWEVER...AVN FORECAST ANOTHER FRONTAL TROUGH TO EXTEND FROM JUST
EAST OF N. CAROLINA TO SE GA/NE FL BY FRI. THIS WILL RESULT IN SW
WINDS OVER OUR AREA ONCE AGAIN.

MIA BB 076/090 078/088 077 474434
PBI BB 074/089 076/089 075 474424
FLL BB 077/089 078/087 077 474434
APF BB 076/087 075/087 075 474435

.MIA...NONE.

GARCIA

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:04 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Hendry

When: July 15, 7:07 PM EST
Where: Hendry County, La Belle
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 26.554, -81.166 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Case Street and a few adjacent buildings suffered minor flooding.

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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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Florida in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Florida, July 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: 5257985.