1 lightning, 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 5, 1:30 PM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 230 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001 CONVECTION STARTED EARLY TODAY ON THE EAST COAST SEABREEZE...S FL PENINSULA SE FLOW...WEST COAST SEABREEZE...AND IN SE GULF. WITH THE COMBINATION OF MULTIPLE BOUNDARY CONVERGENCE AND THE CURRENT UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT BELIEVE LIKELY POPS WILL HAVE NO TROUBLE VERIFYING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE AREA. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH CURRENT PATTERN OF UPPER RIDGE AXIS OVER THE STATE INTO THE E GULF AND SFC RIDGE OVER N FL KEEPING THE AREA IN DEEPENING UNSTABLE SE FLOW WITH AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION AS BOUNDARIES AND SEABREEZES COLLIDE FOR LIKELY POPS WED/WED EVE. THU...MODELS DIFFER SLIGHTLY AND HAVE BACKED OFF ON THE PREVIOUS SOLUTION. THE UPPER TROF DEEPENS AND MOVES OUT OF THE PLAINS AND TO THE SE ATLC COAST BUT UPPER LOW OVER THE W GULF KEEPS ENERGY N AND W OF AREA. THE ASSOCIATED SFC FRONT LAGS OVER THE DEEP SOUTH AS TROPICAL FEATURE STAYS OVER S MS RV VALLEY. OVER FL...SFC RIDGE AXIS TO SLOWLY SLIDE S OVER CENTRAL PENINSULA WITH WESTERLY FLOW OVER N CWA...WHILE SOUTHERN ZONES REMAIN SE. WILL TRIM POPS ACCORDINGLY AS GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOK GOOD WILL BLEND. EXTENDED...UPPER TROF STAYS OVER EASTERN US AS SFC FRONT STALES N OF THE AREA AND SFC RIDGE AXIS MOVES TO THE S FL PEN. WEAK VORT MAXES ROTATE AROUND BASE OF TROF OVER THE AREA WITH SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW IN PLACE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SCT POPS INTO THE WEEKEND THEN ISOLATED FOR THE START OF THE NEXT WEEK. LONG RANGE NUMBERS APPEAR IN LINE. MARINE...RIDGE AXIS N TO KEEP WEAK SE FLOW INTO WED PM. FLOW TO SHIFT SW THEN W IN RESPONSE TO RIDGE SLIDING S INTO THE WEEKEND. WINDS AND SEAS TO SLIGHTLY INCREASE AS GRADIENT TIGHTENS WITH TROF N OF AREA. MAY NEED TO WATCH OFFSHORE BUOY REPORTS FOR ANY POSSIBLE SWELL FROM ACTIVITY IN THE NW GULF IN 24-36 HOURS...BUT AT THIS POINT DONT THINK IT WILL INFLUENCE LOCAL CONDITIONS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: TPA 074/091/074/090 5654 FMY 073/091/074/091 4645 .TBW...NONE. RD
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Charlotte county emergency management reported that a female was struck and injured by lightning near the intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and Olean Avenue in Port Charlotte.
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: 5254535.