Florida, 2001

Tornado in Florida, July 26, 2001

July 26, 2001 · NWS TBW · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

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  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 26, 8:20 PM EST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 8:20 PM EST, 0 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
920 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2001

CURRENTLY...CONVECTION WINDING DOWN ALONG THE COASTAL COS...EXCEPT
IN CHARLOTTE CO ATTM WHERE ONE LAST CELL REMAINS.  OTHERWISE...
REMNANT STRATIFORM RAINS QUICKLY SHUTTING DOWN...AND DEBRIS CLOUDS
BEGINNING TO DO LIKEWISE.

DISC...ANOTHER DAY...ANOTHER ROUND OF CONVECTION.  THIS TIME...
INTERIOR CO ACTIVITY JUMPED A SMIDGE FARTHER TO THE W...CLOSER TO
THE WCSB WHICH WAS PINNED NEARER THE COAST THAN ON WED.  THIS ALSO
MINIMIZED THE SEVERE THREAT...THOUGH CONDITIONS GOT CLOSE IN SOME
AREAS.

FOR THE OVERNIGHT...EXPECT THE USUAL GRADUAL CLEARING AND WILL
ADJUST ZONES AS SUCH.  WILL HAVE TO MAKE A LAST MINUTE DECISION ON
THE S 1/3 DEPENDING ON STATUS OF CELL RACING INTO SARASOTA CO.

THEREAFTER...LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER ROUND ON FRI...PERHAPS A BIT
FARTHER INLAND AS WCSB MAY PENETRATE A BIT MORE.  BY SAT...ALL
MODELS INDICATING SUBSIDENCE BEHIND WEAK SHORT WAVE...PERHAPS
HOLDING INTO SUNDAY.

MARINE:  WILL HOLD ONTO SCT TSTMS ENDING FOR THE OVERNIGHT...
OTHERWISE WINDS AND SEAS LOOK GOOD.

.TBW...NONE

88/GOLDSMITH

The radar

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Charlotte

When
July 26, 8:20 PM EST
Where
Charlotte County, 3 mi N of Harbour Hgts
Rating
F0
Path length
0.1 mi
Path width
10 yd
Property damage
$3,000
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
26.933, -82.050

Damage survey conducted by Charlotte county emergency management in cooperation with the National Weather Service, concluded that a short-lived F0 tornado touched down along Guapore Drive near Deep Creek south of the Charlotte-De Soto county line. The tornado snapped a large tree at the base and caused minor roof tile damage to a neighboring house. Residents reported hearing the sound of a large freight train at the time of the damage.

What these are

Tornado
A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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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: 5259856.