1 lightning, 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 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.
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
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 national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Citrus county fire & rescue reported that lightning struck, ignited and partially damaged a mobile home in Inverness.
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: 5254619.