Funnel Cloud, Collier
- When
- June 22, 11:30 AM EST
- Where
- Collier County, Naples Park
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 26.099, -81.381 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A SKYWARN spotter sighted a funnel cloud.
Funnel Cloud in Florida, June 22, 2001
1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 22, 8:30 AM EST, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 8:30 AM EST, 3 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 930 AM EDT FRI JUN 22 2001 SOUNDINGS ALL SHOW SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST LOW LEVEL FLOW SO THE INTERIOR AND EAST COAST WILL BE FAVORED. WILL PROBAGBLY UPDATE ZONES TO BACK OFF OF THE WEST COAST AFTERNOON PROBABILITIES. ALSO WILL CHANCE WEST COAST DIRECTIONS FOR COASTAL WATERS. .MIA...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 8:00 AM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
FLZ063-066>075-222000- SOUTH FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 900 AM EDT FRI JUN 22 2001 ...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND LAST INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA. THE ACTIVITY WILL TEND TO DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN AND INTERIOR PORTIONS AND THEN DRIFT TO THE EAST. THIS WILL GIVE THE EASTERN METROPOLITAN AREAS OF PALM BEACH...BROWARD...AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTIES THE BEST CHANCE OF SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL DURING THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. ATMOSPHERIC WINDS HAVE BECOME LIGHT SO THE THUNDERSTORM MOVEMENT WILL BE SLOW. THIS WILL RESULT IN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS POSSIBLE. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...THEREFORE SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TODAY AND SHOULD MONITOR THE SITUATION. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MIA./
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:25 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in California, June 22 to 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 22 to 23, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, June 22 to 23, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 22, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Maryland, June 22 to 23, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 22, 2001
- Flash Flood in Maryland, June 22, 2001
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 22 to 23, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 22, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 22, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in New York, June 22, 2001
More
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, June 2001
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: 5251077.