Florida, 2001

Hail in Florida, June 6, 2001

June 6, 2001 · NWS TBW · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
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 6, 1:00 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 1:00 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
200 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001

AFTERNOON CONVECTION ONGOING OVER EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE AS WEST
COAST SEABREEZE STARTING TO GET ORGANIZE ALONG WEST COAST FROM
TAMPA SOUTH ATTM. LIKELY POPS AGAIN TO VERIFY OVER THE CWA WITH SOME
STRONG STORMS POSSIBLE LATER IN THE DAY...COVERED IN HWO.

ALL GUIDANCE AGREES THAT TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF STATEWIDE SE FLOW.
UPPER RIDGE TO REMAIN AND WEAKEN OVER THE AREA AS SFC RIDGE AXIS NOW
OVER EXTREME N FL SINKS SOUTHWARD TO OVER THE S FL PENINSULA THRU
THE PERIOD AS SFC FRONT STALLS N OF THE STATE. LOW LEVEL WESTERLY
FLOW TO SET UP OVER AREA WITH TYPICAL PRECIP PATTERN ON COASTAL AREAS
EARLY THEN MOVE TO THE INTERIOR LATER AND SCT IN NATURE. GUIDANCE
TEMPS ON TRACK WILL BLEND.

LONG TERM FCST NOT AS CLEAR...BUT WILL TENTATIVELY GO WITH BLEND OF
LONG RANGE MODEL DATA. UPPER TROF TO DEEPEN OVER THE EASTERN US AS
UPPER LOW OVER TX...REMNANTS OF ALLISON PROGGED TO SLOWLY OPEN AND
SHIFT EASTWARD AS SEVERAL VORT MAXES ROTATE OVER THE AREA THRU EARLY
NEXT WEEK. MEAN LAYER RH TO REMAIN HIGH AS SFC RIDGE REMAIN S TO KEEP
WESTERLY FLOW AND SCT POPS FOR THE AREA.

MARINE REPORTS STILL A 4 TO 5 FT SWELL OVER THE OFFSHORE WATERS WITH
ONLY SMALL TRACE SWELL WASHING UP ON THE BEACHES...EXPECT SWELL TO
SUBSIDE OVERNIGHT. WESTERLY FLOW TO PREVAIL OVER THE WATERS WITH NO
HI+GHLIGHTS THRU THE PERIOD.

FIRE WEATHER...NO HIGHLIGHTS.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS:
TPA 073/091 075/090  6434
FMY 073/091 074/092  4534=

.TBW...NONE.

RD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 6, 2:13 PM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
313 PM EDT WED JUN 06 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 PM    NORTH PORT                FL   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/01   SARASOTA                       1 POWER LINE DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY FPL.

0400 PM    PUNTA GORDA               FL   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/01   CHARLOTTE                      A PALM TREE FELL ON A
                                          FEEDER AND KNOCKED OUT
                                          POWER. REPORTED BY FPL.

0615 PM    DADE CITY                 FL   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/01   PASCO                          LIMBS AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

0656 PM    TARPON SPGS               FL   WcIND DAMAGE
06/05/01   PINELLAS                       POWER LINES DOWN AND
                                          TREES UPROOTED.
                                          REPORTED BY MEDIA.

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Citrus

When
June 6, 4:15 PM EST
Where
Citrus County, Inverness
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates
28.833, -82.333

Citrus county fire & rescue reported dime sized hail in Inverness.

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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

The same day elsewhere

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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: 5254621.