1 waterspout, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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, 27 minutes earlier.
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
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
1041 AM EDT FRI JUL 27 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM 3 WNW SAN ANTONIO FL LIGHTNING
07/26/01 PASCO *** 1 DEAD ***
42 YEAR OLD MALE ROAD
CREW WORKER WAS STRUCK
AND KILLED BY LIGHTNING
NEAR DARBY RD, 2 MILES
EAST OF BELLAMY
BROTHERS BLVD. REPORT
FROM MEDIA.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.
ZALESKIThe Tampa radar (KTBW), 26 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:48 UTC.
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
Manatee county sheriffs department reported that a waterspout was observed five miles southwest of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge (I-275) near the mouth of Tampa Bay.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, July 2001
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: 5259857.