Florida, 2001

Tornado in Florida, June 18, 2001

June 18, 2001 · NWS TAE · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 18, 1:10 PM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:10 PM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Lafayette

When
June 18, 3:00 PM EST to 3:01 PM EST
Where
Lafayette County, 3 mi SE of Day
Rating
F0
Path length
0.1 mi
Path width
50 yd
Property damage
$75,000
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
30.150, -83.250

A F0 tornado briefly touched down at the HBCN Dairy on County Road 251. The barn was lifted nearly 30 feet off the ground. Its roof along with twisted metal and debris were strewn across the field. The feeding and milking barns were damaged. Reported by the Mayo Free Press.

What these are

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.

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Sources

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: 5251192.