2 tornado, 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 Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 3, 12:30 PM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 130 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2001 CURRENT...WELL DEFINED EC/WC AND LAKE OKEE BREEZES ON VISIBLE TIME LAPSE...WITH THE TYPICAL FINE LINE DENOTING THE ECSB ON 88D REF. FEW CONVECTIVE CELLS POPPING INVOF KFMY-KPGD IN LINE WITH THE FCST PHILOSOPHY. CU FIELD RATHER INHIBITED OUTSIDE OF AREAS OF BOUNDARY CONVG. WITH THE WC BOUNDARY ALREADY PUSHING INTO SUMTER CO FASTER STEERING FLOW AND MINIMAL COVERAGE EXPECTED...WE MAY BE ABLE TO GO WITH NIL POPS ACROSS THE NORTH INTERIOR TONIGHT. WITH WIDESPREAD COVERAGE OVER THE WEST FL COUNTIES SOUTH OF KSRQ WILL BUMP UP THE EVENING POPS TO SCT FOR THE SOUTH INTERIOR/SE COAST AS ACTIVITY WILL SURELY PUSH ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN CWA. NEXT H48...LARGE SCALE PATTERN OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WILL FEATURE RISING H50 HEIGHTS AS A 590-591DM RIDGE BUILDS OVHD...ALONG WITH A 1-2C TEMPS RISE (TO ABOUT -8C) AS WELL AS A GRADUAL NORTHWARD MIGRATION OF THE SFC-H85 RIDGE FROM SOUTH FLORIDA TO ACROSS NORTH/ CENTRAL FLORIDA BETWEEN 29N-30N. TO THIS END...THE BIG THREE ARE IN EXCELLENT AGREEMENT. WIND BACK TO DEEP LAYER SOUTHERLY IN THE SFC TO H50 LAYER...MEANING 1) THIS WILL ALLOW THE MOISTURE THAT HAD BEEN SUPPRESSED ACROSS SOUTH FL TO WORK ITS WAY SUCCESSIVELY NORTHWARD 2) REGIME WILL TREND TOWARD FAVORING INTERIOR COS FOR HIGHER POPS DAY 1 AND INTERIOR/WEST FL DAY 2 (EVENTUALLY FOCUS WILL BE ACROSS THE WESTERN THIRD TO HALF OF THE STATE BEYOND H48). ZFP WILL SHOW THIS TREND. EXTENDED...GRADUAL SOUTHWARD RETURN OF THE DLM RIDGE AXIS BEGINS ON WED AS H50 TROUGH/SURFACE LOW EJECT EASTWARD ACROSS THE TN VALLEY AND THEN INTENSIFY OFFSHORE THE CAROLINAS. FRONTAL TROUGH WILL SLOW AS IT DROPS SOUTHWARD TOWARD THE CWA BY FRIDAY...HOWEVER UPSTREAM H50 RIDGE AMPLIFYING PORTENDS THE FEATURE MAKING A DECENT RUN AT THE CWA. UNCERTAINTY COMES INTO PLAY DAYS 6-7 AS TO HOW FAR SOUTH IT WILL GET BEFORE WASHING OUT AND WHETHER THIS WILL SIGNAL THE BEGINNING OF RETURN TO A MORE EASTERLY FLOW REGIME AS HIGH PRES BUILDS TO THE NORTH. 02/12Z ECM AND 03/00Z MRF SEEM TO ARGUE FOR THIS. WILL KEEP SCATTERED POPS FOR SAT/SUN...BUT WILL INCREASE CLOUDS AND GO A FEW DEGS COOLER ON TEMPS. THANKS FOR COORD TBW. MARINE...STILL NO HIGHLIGHTS. WILL TRANSITION FROM WELL DEFINED SEA BREEZE CIRC TO ONE OF MORE GENERAL S-SE FLOW. POPS SHOULD BE OUT OF THE PICTURE COF-JUP LEG TOMORROW AND BOTH LEGS TUE AS REGIME TRENDS TOWARD DIURNAL CONVECTION STAYING OVER LAND. PRELIM CCF... DAB BB 070/090 072/089 072 1323 MCO BB 071/092 072/091 072 1445 MLB BB 072/089 073/089 073 3323 60= .MLB...NONE. PUBLIC/MARINE...CRISTALDI AVIATION/FIRE WX...BLOTTMAN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
604 PM EDT SUN JUN 03 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
528 PM SEBASTIAN FL 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 INDIAN RIVER NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SPOTTERN.
535 PM 1S SEBASTIAN FL 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/01 INDIAN RIVER DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
BY THE PUBLIC.
SPRATTThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
An F0 tornado touched down briefly in a rural area of the extreme northeast corner of Osceola County near State Road 532. The tornado was documented by storm chasers as it moved into southeast Orange County. No damage was reported.
An F0 tornado move north out of Osceola County into the extreme southeast corner of Orange County near State Road 532. The tornado dissipate quickly north of the Osceola Orange county line.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 2001Warnings 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: 5251148, 5251149.