Thunderstorm Wind, Alachua
- When
- July 20, 4:30 PM EST
- Where
- Alachua County, Alachua
- Property damage
- $4,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 29.783, -82.500
Large trees and power lines were blown down.
Damaging Wind in Florida, July 20, 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
- $4,000
- 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, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:45 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes 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
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 11:15 AM EST, 5 hours 15 minutes before
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-202100- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1215 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH INTENSE LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH INTO SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON COINCIDING WITH THE TIME OF MAXIMUM HEATING. THE FRONT COMBINED WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND INTERACTIONS WITH SEA BREEZES WILL RESULT IN WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND NORTHEAST FLORIDA INTO TONIGHT. THE STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE SOUTH AND PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 3 INCHES. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS MAY OCCUR. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE INTENSE DEADLY LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 30 TO 35 MPH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER LIGHTNING IS AN UNDERRATED KILLER AND CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM THE THUNDERSTORM. SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/~JAX. TRABERT
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 109 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:29 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 Wisconsin, July 20, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Montana, July 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 20, 2001
- Hail in South Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, July 20, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Montana, July 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 20, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, July 20 to 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Hail in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
More
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5257696.