1 lightning, 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 18, 1:10 PM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 210 PM EDT MON JUN 18 2001 AREA 88DS SHOWING AREA OF SHOWERS & TSTMS PUSHING W-SW ON EASTERLY FLOW. WITH NE-E FLOW...EAST COAST SEA BREEZE WAS PUSHING INLAND...& WITH BIG BEND SEA BREEZE ALSO PUSHING INLAND. UPPER LEVEL VORT LOBE IN 500MB FLOW HELPING DEVELOP CONVECTION & WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE W-SW INTO EVENING HOURS. SO FAR...IT WAS HOLDING TOGETHER...FEEDING ON INPLACE INSTABILITY & MOISTURE. THETA-E FIELD WELL DEFINED FORM JUST NORTH OF KJAX TO AROUND KTLH. MODEL TRENDS ARE SIMILAR WITH CONTINUED WEAK HIGH PRESSURE TO NE OF CWA WITH E BECOMING SE FLOW. QPF IS INDICATED THROUGH OUT AS THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS QUITE SATURATED...INPLACE INSTABILITY REMAINS & SOME UPPER LEVEL ENERGY ROTATES THROUGH MEAN FLOW. BY MID-WEEK...THE UPPER RIDGE AFFECTING THE SE U.S. WEAKENS & IS REPLACED WITH OVERALL WEST TO EAST FLOW WITH THE NEXT DEEPENING TROUGH TO AFFECT THE SE U.S. LATE THURSDAY...FRIDAY & INTO WEEKEND. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPEARS TO PUSH INTO THE AREA FRIDAY...THEN POSSIBLY STALL SAT. FOR TEMPS...GUIDANCE SIMILAR & WILL BLEND. MARINE...NO HIGHLIGHTS. FIRE WEATHER...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FOR HIGH DISPERSION INDICES THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL FL ZONES. DISPERSIONS LOWER TUESDAY & NO HEADLINES EXPECTED. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... TLH 071 090 071 090 3434 PFN 073 086 073 086 2323 DHN 071 089 071 089 -323 ABY 068 089 069 088 4433 VLD 070 089 070 088 5544 .TLH... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL....RED FLAG WRNG THIS AFTN ALL ZONES. MCT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Four homes in Santa Rosa Beach were struck by lightning. Reported by the Fort Walton Beach Daily News.
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, June 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: 5251198.