Florida, 2001Lightning Strike in Florida, June 5, 2001
June 5, 2001 · NWS TBW · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 5, 1:30 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 1:30 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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
Lightning, Hillsborough
- When
- June 5, 3:15 PM EST
- Where
- Hillsborough County, 11 mi NW of Tampa
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 27.906, -82.347 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Bay News 9 Cable reported, that under partial sunshine, two senior citizen male golfers were struck and injured by the sideflash of lightning that struck a tree from a nearby thunderstorm at the Country Way Golf Course located on the 11100 block of Waters Avenue in northwest Tampa.
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Tropical Storm in Texas, June 5 to 10, 200122 deaths · $5.1 billion · 15 events
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 5 to 7, 20011 death · $735,000 · F1 · 14 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 5, 20011 death · $83,000 · 1.75 in hail · 4 events
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Louisiana, June 5 to 14, 2001$13 million · 29 events
- Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Louisiana, June 5 to 8, 2001$12 million · 9 events
- Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 5 to 7, 2001$11 million · 9 events
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 5, 2001$1.5 million · F1 · 26 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Illinois, June 5 to 6, 2001$500,000 · 50 kt wind · 19 events
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 5 to 6, 2001$50,000 · F0 · 55 events
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, June 5, 20011 injured · $278,000 · 3 events
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Virginia, June 5, 2001$106,000 · 9 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in West Virginia, June 5, 2001$90,000 · 1.5 in hail · 8 events
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: 5254612.