1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 8, 1:45 PM EST, 5 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 245 PM EDT MON JUL 8 2001 MID LEVEL CIRCULATION OFF THE SOUTHEAST COAST IS FORECAST TO MOVE SOUTHWEST AND WILL PASS NEAR/ACROSS SOUTHERN PENINSULA LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY AND INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO. ONLY SURFACE REFLECTION WILL BE A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH. COLD POOL ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LOW COULD FUEL SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL AS THE MOST LIKELY CONSEQUENCE. JULY IS THE SECOND MOST LIKELY MONTH FOR HAIL IN SOUTH FLORIDA. ABUNDANT DEEP LAYER MOISTURE...ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW...WILL CREATE A LOT OF MID AND HIGH CLOUDS THAT MAY LIMIT DAYTIME HEATING TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...BUT THERE WILL PROBABLY BE ENOUGH THIN SPOTS TO ALLOW CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES TO BE REACHED AND THEN THE SELF PERPETUATING THUNDERSTORM PROCESSES WILL BE IN FULL SWING. THUS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY LASTING INTO THE EVENING. EXTENDED... ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA COAST...AS DEEP LAYER MOISTURE DECREASES BY THE END OF THE WEEK...SKIES SHOULD ONCE AGAIN BECOME MOSTLY SUNNY IN THE MORNINGS AND PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH ABOVE CLIMO CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. ALONG THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COAST...ONSHORE FLOW WILL MAINTAIN THE PATTERN OF LATE NIGHT AND MORNING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. MARINE... SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 10 TO 15 KNOTS ON TUESDAY BUT OFFSHORE COMPONENT ALONG THE SOUTHEAST COAST WILL LIMIT FETCH AND THUS SEAS WILL BE LOWER NEAR THE SHORE. MIA TT 075/089 075/091 075 4736 PBI TT 074/090 073/092 072 4736 .MIA...NONE. LUSHINE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
746 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0505 PM 5 S LA BELLE FL TORNADO
07/08/01 HENDRY REPORTED BY HENDRY
COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT
AND HENDRY SHERIFFS
OFFICE. METAL ROOF
PARTIALLY BLOWN OFF OF
TOOTSIE ROLL DRIVE
THROUGH CONVENIENCE
STORE ON STATE ROAD 29
5 MILES SOUTH OF LABELLE.
0510 PM 5 W MEDLEY FL 50 MPH TSTM GUST
07/08/01 DADE NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES
THROUGHOUT THE DORAL
AREA REPORTED BY
MIAMI-DADE SHERIFF.
0515 PM LA BELLE FL WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 HENDRY REPORTED BY HENDRY
SHERIFFS OFFICE. TREES
BLOWN DOWN ACROSS POWER
LINES IN THE PORT
LABELLE COMMUNITY.
POWER OUT ACROSS A WIDE
AREA OF THE COUNTY.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
805 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0505 PM 5 S LA BELLE FL TORNADO
07/08/01 HENDRY TORNADO TOOK OFF PART OF A
METAL ROOF OF THE TOOTSIE
ROLL DRIVE THROUGH
CONVENIENCE STORE ON STATE
ROAD 29 5 MILES SOUTH OF
LABELLE. REPORTED BY HENDRY
FIRE DEPARTMENT AND HENDRY
SHERIFF.
0515 PM PORT LABELLE FL WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 HENDRY TREES BLOWN DOWN ACROSS
POWER LINES IN PORT LABELLE
COMMUNITY. WIDESPREAD POWER
OUTAGES ACROSS HENDRY
COUNTY. REPORTED BY HENDRY
SHERIFF.
0520 PM DORAL FL WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 MIAMI-DADE POWER OUTAGES SCATTERED
THROUGHOUT THE DORAL
Q NEIGHBORHOOD. REPORTED BY
MIAMI-DADE SHERIFF.The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:11 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A SKYWARN spotter sighted a funnel cloud over Wellington.
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: 5257980.