1 rip current, 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 Jun 27, 12:15 PM EST, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 115 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2001 THE TROPICAL WAVE...WITH AXIS NEAR 78W...HAS SLOWED DOWN FROM 15 KNOTS TO AROUND 5 TO 10 KNOTS AND WILL MOVE WEST ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY. RADAR/SATELLITE/UPPER AIR DATA SHOW A CLOSED LOW FROM 700-500 MB IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SYSTEM WITH AN OPEN WAVE AT 850 MB AND BELOW. SURFACE PRESSURES REMAIN VERY HIGH AND EVEN IF THEY FELL AT 4 MB PER DAY WOULD TAKE THREE DAYS FOR A WELL DEFINED SURFACE CIRCULATION TO FORM. BY THAT TIME...THE WAVE WILL BE NORTHWEST OF SOUTH FLORIDA. THE WAVE WILL BRING SQUALLY WEATHER WITH BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. LOOKING AT CURRENT ARRANGEMENT OF CONVECTION...HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY BE OVER PALM BEACH...GLADES AND HENDRY COUNTIES...INCLUDING LAKE OKEECHOBEE. NO FLOOD WATCHES ARE ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS SHOULD AVERAGE ONE TO THREE INCHES BUT LOCALLY 5 PLUS INCHES ARE POSSIBLE...AND URBAN FLOOD ADVISORIES MAY BE NECESSARY. MARINE... SQUALLY CONDITIONS...MAINLY OVER SOUTHEAST COASTAL WATERS TONIGHT AND THURSDAY...BUT SUSTAINED WINDS SHOULD BE BELOW EXERCISE CAUTION LEVELS. EXTENDED... NEXT TROPICAL WAVE NEAR 60W IS MOVING WEST AT 15 KNOTS. THIS WAVE IS AT LOWER LATITUDES THAN THE WAVE CURRENTLY NEAR SOUTH FLORIDA AND ONLY THE NORTHERN TIP OF THE WAVE WOULD LIKELY AFFECT SOUTH FLORIDA. ALLOWING FOR A SLIGHT SLOWING OF THE WAVE THE EFFECTS WOULD NOT LIKELY BE FELT UNTIL SATURDAY OR SUNDAY. MIA TB 080/088 078/089 078 066732 PBI TB 078/086 077/089 076 067744 .MIA...NONE. LUSHINE
FLZ063-066>075-281000- SOUTH FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 245 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2001 ...TROPICAL WAVE TO SOAK SOUTH FLORIDA THROUGH THURSDAY... A TROPICAL WAVE JUST OFF THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA COAST THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE WEST NORTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH. THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS NOT FORECASTING ANY DEVELOPMENT WITH THIS WAVE DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTH FLORIDA THROUGH THURSDAY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL LIKELY OCCUR OVER PALM BEACH...BROWARD...GLADES AND HENDRY COUNTIES...INCLUDING LAKE OKEECHOBEE...ALTHOUGH MIAMI-DADE AND OTHER AREAS OF SOUTH FLORIDA COULD SEE LOCALLY HEAVY AMOUNTS. RAINFALL TOTALS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE LIKELY WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS OF FIVE INCHES OR MORE. AS OF 2 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES ONE TO TWO INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN THE PAST THREE HOURS FROM WEST PALM BEACH TO WELLINGTON AND IN WESTERN MIRAMAR AND NEAR POMPANO BEACH. NO FLOOD WATCHES HAVE BEEN ISSUED...BUT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN COULD PRODUCE URBAN STREET FLOODING. PERSONS SHOULD MONITOR THE SITUATION THROUGH NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. GUSTY WINDS IN THE VICINITY OF FAST MOVING SHOWERS WILL AFFECT MUCH OF SOUTH FLORIDA THURSDAY AND PERSONS ENGAGED IN ACTIVITIES SUBJECT TO SUDDEN WIND GUSTS OF 25 TO 30 MPH SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS. THIS INCLUDES PERSONS WORKING IN HIGH PLACES...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES AND MARINERS. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MIA.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A father drowned in a rip current while attempting to save his children. The children were uninjured.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Broward | 2001-06-27 | 40 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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: 5251147.