Name: Damaging Wind in Florida, June 24, 2001
Start: 2001-06-24T15:10
End: 2001-06-24T15:10
Location: Florida

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $4,000
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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 24, 1:18 PM EST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 1:18 PM EST, 1 hour 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
218 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001

CURRENTLY...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST ACROSS FLAGLER
COUNTY. ALSO THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG A SEA BREEZE OVER
COASTAL GEORGIA WHERE THE WESTERLY FLOW WILL TRANSPORT THEM BACK TO
THE COAST. THE SHARP DWPT GRADIENT DEFINES THE FRONT...LOCATED FROM
N OF SSI TO E OF LAKE CITY WHERE A COOP SITE REPORTS A DWPT OF
66...THEN TO CTY.

LOOKING FOR THE FRONT TO STALL BY THIS EVENING THEN SLIDE TO N
FLORIDA ON MONDAY BEFORE DISSIPATING. ON TUESDAY A STRONGER
SOUTHERLY FLOW ALOFT PUMPS IN MORE MOISTURE AND A SURFACE RIDGE
STRENGTHENS TO THE NORTH CREATING AN EAST-SOUTHEAST FLOW THAT WILL
CONTINUE INTO THE EXTENDED PERIOD. MEANWHILE THE CUT-OFF LOW ALOFT
DIVES SOUTHWARD INTO N GEORGIA AND MEANDERS SOME BEFORE RETROGRADING
TO OK BY NEXT WEEKEND. THIS SPELLS GREATER THAN NORMAL PRECIP FROM
MIDDLE OF WEEK ONWARD.

WILL CONTINUE 30% S OF GNV-SGJ AND ALONG COAST TONIGHT. ON MONDAY...
CONVECTION WILL FIRE INITIALLY ALONG SEA BREEZES OVER INTERIOR FL
AND MOVE TO E COAST. WILL GO WITH 30%-40% EXCEPT 20% IN NWRN GA
COUNTIES. A STRONGER SELY FLOW ON TUESDAY WILL RETARD THE W COAST
SEA BREEZE UNTIL LATE AND THE ACTION SHOULD OCCUR A LITTLE FARTHER
INLAND.

MARINE...WILL CONTINUE VARIABLE WINDS INTO MONDAY THEN SOUTHEAST ON
TUESDAY. NO HIGHLIGHTS.

PRELIM
AMG 64/88/65/89 -224
SSI 68/84/69/84 2223
JAX 66/90/67/88 2234
GNV 65/90/65/90 1324 28

.JAX...
FL...NONE.
GA...NONE.

TRABERT/ZIBURA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:11 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Nassau

When: June 24, 3:10 PM EST
Where: Nassau County, Fernandina Beach
Property damage: $4,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 30.667, -81.450

Large trees and power lines were blown down at South Fletcher and Sadler Rd.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Florida in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5255809.