Name: Damaging Wind in Florida, July 20, 2001
Start: 2001-07-20T17:45
End: 2001-07-20T17:45
Location: Florida

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $3,000
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 20, 2:45 PM EST, 3 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:45 PM EST, 3 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
345 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 2001

HAVE GONE WITH THE ETA/MESO-ETA MODELS WHICH BRINGS COLD FRONT INTO
SE GA TONIGHT...NORTH FLORIDA SATURDAY AM...AND STALLS IT ACROSS
CENTRAL FLORIDA 00Z SUNDAY. COLD FRONT UNUSUALLY STRONG FOR THIS
TIME OF YEAR...THEN AGAIN WE HAD ONE ONLY A WEEK AGO. THE AVN AND ETA
AGREE ON WHERE STALLING IT...BUT THE AVN MOVES FRONT MUCH SLOWER
AND DEVELOPES STRONGER WAVE ALONG IT. WILL NOT GO WITH THIS AND HAVE
LEANED TOWARDS THE ETA. GOING WITH THE FASTER SOLUTION REQUIRES
THE CWF TO BE BROKEN UP...HAVE SEPERATED THE GA AND FL WATERS AND
BRING WINDS AROUND TO NE 10 TO 15 KNOTS (MESO-ETA) IN GA WATERS.
DEPENDING ON EXACT STRENGHT OF WAVE AND FRONT MAY NEED TO BUMP WINDS
UP OR EVEN DOWN. HOWEVER...THE BIG EMPHASIS WILL BE ON THE COVERAGE
OF THE STORMS WITH THE APPROACH OF THE FRONT. WILL RAISE POPS
TONIGHT AND INTO SATURDAY. HIGHEST POPS SATURDAY WILL BE ACROSS
NORTH CENTRAL FL (80 PCT). LATER SHIFTS SHOULD MONITOR FOR POSSIBLE
FLOOD WATCH. DECIDED TO HOLD BACK ON IT FOR NOW...DUE TO THE
UNCERTAINTY OF EXACT PLACE FRONT STALLS. ALSO...THE GROUNDS ARE NOT
TOO SATURATED AND CAN TAKE MORE RAIN. HAVE LOWERED POPS SLIGHTLY IN
OUR NW CWA SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...WENT 50 TO 60 PCT EVERYWHERE
ELSE.

PRELIM

AMG 72/86/72/86 7534
SSI 73/84/72/85 7745
JAX 73/84/72/86 7755
GNV 74/84/72/85 7856 08

.JAX...
.GA...NONE.
.FL...NONE.

EIGHT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 20, 5:04 PM EST, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE, FL
604 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    ALACHUA                   FL   WIND DAMAGE
07/20/01   ALACHUA                        EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
                                          REPORTED TREES DOWN.

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The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Hamilton

When: July 20, 5:45 PM EST
Where: Hamilton County, Jasper
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 30.517, -82.950

Large trees and power lines were blown down.

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

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: 5257693.