Florida, 2001Tornado in Florida, July 27, 2001
July 27, 2001 · NWS TBW · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $75,000
- 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 27, 1:20 PM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 1:20 PM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
220 PM EDT FRI JUL 27 2001
CURRENTLY...88D CONTINUES TO SHOW SCT SHOWERS AND TSTMS MOVING FROM
ESE TO NW. VISIBLE SAT LOOP INDICATING A MORE SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL
FLOW PATTERN...WHICH IS KEEPING WEST AND EAST COAST SEA BREEZES
FROM MOVING VERY FAR INLAND. EAST/WEST OUTFLOW BAND THAT WAS OVER
THE EXTREME S FA THIS MORNING...IS NOW SPAWNING A BROKEN LINE OF
SHOWERS JUST SOUTH OF TAMPA BAY.
---FCST DISC---
MODELS GENERALLY SIMILAR THROUGH THE NEXT FEW DAYS. DEEP LAYER RIDGE
N OF THE FA...PROGD TO SLOWLY SAG SOUTHWARD TOWARD THE NCENT FA BY
LATER SUN AS AN UPPER TROF SHARPENS OVER THE NE AND MID ATLC COASTS.
ASSOCIATED WEAK SFC FRONT WILL STALL OVER S GA/N FL BY LATE WEEKEND.
GENERALLY ESE LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL PERSIST FOR SAT AND SUN...BUT THE
STEERING WILL BE MORE SOUTHERLY SUN. WITH THE SFC RIDGE AXIS OVER THE
N FA SUN...SHOULD HELP TO MOVE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE AND BETTER
PRECIP CHCS FARTHER INLAND OVER THE N 1/2 OF THE FA. NEAR CLIMO
TEMPS AGAIN EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD.
---EXTENDED---
FCST CONTINUES TO HINGE ON FATE OF POTENTIAL TROPICAL WAVE. LATEST
AVN AND OLD MRF NOW MUCH FARTHER SOUTH WITH THIS FEATURE...MOVING
IT GENERALLY ACROSS CUBA TUES AND WED...THE CONTINUING WESTWARD
INTO THE SCENT GULF THURS AND FRI. MAIN EFFECTS OF THIS FEATURE
WOULD BE TO INCREASE POPS AT LEAST OVER THE S FA AROUND WED...AND
INCREASED EASTERLY FLOW. TOO EARLY TO WORRY ABOUT DETAILS YET...BUT
MAY SHOW SOME INCREASE IN POPS S FA WED. COULD BE A DAY OF LOWER
COVERAGE AHEAD OF THIS WAVE TUE. OTHERWISE...GENERALY AFTN/EVENING
CONVECTION WILL PREVAIL.
---MARINE---
NO HIGHLIGHTS EXPECTED THROUGH TUES. BY WED...IF TROPICAL WAVE
VERIFIES...COULD GET MARGINAL SCA S WATERS...BUT TOO SOON TO TELL.
WILL TREND WINDS AND PRECIP CHCS UP S WATERS WED.
PRELIM #S:
TPA 075/090 075/090 4434
QFMY 074/090 074/091 4434=
.TBW...NONE
MORALES
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 27, 12:32 PM EST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
132 PM EDT FRI JUL 27 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0204 PM 13 S ST PETE CLEARWATER I FL WATERSPOUT
07/26/01 PINELLAS WATERSPOUT WAS REPORTED
BY A PILOT OVER BOCA
CIEGA BAY.
0920 PM 3 N HARBOUR HGTS FL TORNADO
07/26/01 CHARLOTTE DAMAGE SURVEY CONDUCTED
BY CHARLOTTE COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN
COOPERATION WITH THE
NWS...DETERMINED THAT A
SHORT LIVED F0 TORNADO
TOUCHED DOWNED ALONG
GUAPORE DRIVE NEAR DEEP
CREEK ALONG 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. THE TORNADO
PATH LENGTH WAS LESS
THEN A TENTH OF A MILE
AND THE PATH WIDTH WAS
10 YARDS WIDE.
RESIDENTS REPORTED
HEARING THE SOUND OF A
LOUD FREIGHT TRAIN AT
THE TIME OF THE
OCCURRENCE.
ZALESKITornado, Citrus
- When
- July 27, 5:35 PM EST to 5:36 PM EST
- Where
- Citrus County, 5 mi WSW of Floral City
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 28.733, -82.350
An F0 tornado touched down and toppled a few large trees, several branches and power lines in the Heatherwood subdivision, 4.5 miles west southwest of Floral City, in eastern Citrus county. Most of the damage occurred along South Hammock Avenue, South Juneau Point and County Road 581 before the small tornado lifted and dissipated.
- 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.
- Tornado in South Dakota, July 27, 2001$400,000 · F1 · 1 event
- Rip Current in Delaware, July 27 to 31, 20017 injured · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 27, 2001$90,000 · 57 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 27, 2001$26,000 · 70 kt wind · 8 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 27, 20011.25 in hail · 14 events
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, July 27, 2001F0 · 9 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 27, 20011 in hail · 7 events
- Hail in Montana, July 27, 20010.75 in hail · 6 events
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 27, 200152 kt wind · 5 events
- Flash Flooding in North Dakota, July 27, 20013 events
- Flash Flooding in Kansas, July 27 to 28, 20013 events
- Tornadoes in South Dakota, July 27, 2001$10,000 · F0 · 2 events
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: 5259951.