1 rip current, 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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 29, 1:15 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 215 PM EDT SUN JUL 29 2001 MODELS CONTINUE TO BE IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT THROUGH THE SHORT TERM PERIOD. WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATING DRIER AIR AT THE MID AND UPPER LEVELS...WHICH AVN MODEL ACCURATELY PREDICTED YESTERDAY. WITH THE DRIER AIR...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MAINLY ALONG SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY. EXPECT ONLY SCATTERED COVERAGE AGAIN FOR THIS AFTERNOON SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY. AS MENTIONED ABOVE...MODELS PRETTY SIMILAR BUT PREFER AVN FOR THIS PERIOD. SURFACE RIDGE AXIS OVER NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH AS STRONG LOW PRESSURE FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR DEEPENS OFF MID ATLANTIC STATES. THIS WILL BRING FRONT INTO EXTREME NORTH FLORIDA BY TUESDAY MORNING. THE RIDGE AXIS WILL BE OVER LAKE OKEECHOBEE BY MONDAY AFTERNOON...THEN SHIFT EAST DURING THE DAY TUESDAY. AS FAR AS TEMPERATURES AND POPS GO...AVN MOS HAS BEEN DOING PRETTY WELL THE PAST FEW DAYS AND WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW PRETTY CLOSELY. MARINE...WITH RIDGE AXIS SHIFTING SOUTH THE NEXT FEW DAYS...WINDS WILL BE MAINLY IN THE 5 TO 10 KNOT RANGE. WINDS WILL ACTUALLY BECOME SOUTHWESTERLY OVER LAKE OKEECHOBEE AREA THE NEXT FEW DAYS WITH RIDGE NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF AREA. ALSO WITH THIS PATTERN EXPECT SEA BREEZES BOTH COASTS. EXTENDED...MRF AND ESPECIALLY THE 12Z AVN CONTINUE TO BRING EFFECTS FROM TROPICAL WAVE WHICH IS CURRENTLY OVER THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN INTO AREA LATE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. THE SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES THE WAVE HAS BECOME STRONGER SINCE YESTERDAY...THOUGH STILL SOMEWHAT DISORGANIZED. NOT PLANNING ANY CHANGES FROM CURRENT EXTENDED FORECAST AT THIS TIME WITH MAIN WEATHER EFFECTS DURING THE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY TIME FRAME. PBI BB 075/091 075/090 077 482121 FLL BB 079/090 079/090 079 482121 MIA BB 078/091 078/090 079 482121 APF BB 076/090 075/090 076 482323 .MIA...NONE.' KOSIER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A Lantana-resident drowned in a rip current while attempting to swim back to the beach.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Palm Beach | 2001-07-29 | 43 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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: 5256661.