1 hail, 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 May 25, 1:03 PM EST, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
203 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2001
EARLY SUMMER CONDS IN FULL SWING ACROSS THE CWFA...AT LEAST TEMP AND
NOW HUMIDITY WISE. MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WILL BE RAIN-FREE FOR THE
MOST PART (ESPECIALLY CLOSER TO THE COAST). BEACH WEATHER WILL BE
BEST...A TAD COOLER THAN INLAND BUT WITH COMFORTABLE WATER TEMPS
AND NO RAIN.
MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH 36H...THEN DIVERGE A BIT BY
48H. IRONICALLY...THE AVN...DESPITE ALL ITS OVERKILL ON INDIVIDUAL
WAVES MOVING ALONG THE SUBTROPICAL JET TO OUR S...HAS VERIFIED BEST
IN KEEPING HIGHEST MEAN MOISTURE OUT OF THE CWFA. THIS GO-ROUND...
THE AVN AND ETA ARE IN BEST AGREEMENT...AND THE NGM (WHICH IS
CARRYING A 90 POP LATE TODAY FOR FMY) CONTINUES TO BE OVERDONE WITH
N EXTENT OF MOISTURE...NOT ONLY THIS AFTN BUT AGAIN ON SUNDAY.
SHORT TERM:
DESPITE OVERALL DRYNESS OF ATMOSPHERE...LAPS SOUNDINGS ARE RATHER
UNSTABLE...ESP CENTRAL AND S...WITH CAPES NEARING 3K AND LIS
NEARING -8. WERE WATCHING SLOW PROGRESSION OF WCSB WITH BUILDING CU
OVER INTERIOR COASTAL COS ATTM...WHICH COULD FIRE INTO SOME
CONVECTION OVER INTERIOR PORTIONS LATE. WILL DECIDE LAST MINUTE
WHETHER TO ADD A REST OF AFTN/EVE PORTION TO ZONES.
THEREAFTER...SKIES SHOULD BE MCLR N AND PCLDY S (AS CI STREAKS N).
FOR SAT...WILL LEAVE POPS OUT OF THE CENTRAL AND N COAST AND DROP
BACK TO ISOLD INTERIOR AS RESURGENCE OF LOW LVL DRYING SHOWS UP IN
NW FLOW. ONE CONCERN WILL BE THE REORIENTATION OF THE MALLORY
SWAMP PLUME TO THE SE (GIVEN NW FLOW IN THE MIXED LAYER)...WHICH
COULD IMPACT LEVY CO LATE. BY SUN...FLOW RETURNS TO SW BUT PCP
WATER REMAINS LOW CENTRAL AND N. WILL PUSH POPS UP A SMIDGE...
LEAVING THE NATURE COAST DRY.
EXTENDED:
AVN POOLS MOISTURE IN THE GULF AND EASES IT E INTO THE CWFA ON
MON. NOGAPS RETAINS W FLOW AROUND SLOWLY LIFTING POLAR VORTEX AND
HOLDS DEEPER MOISTURE S OF THE CWFA FOR AT LEAST ONE MORE DAY. THE
AVN IS RESPONDING TO A WEAK TROUGH NEAR THE YUCATAN...WHICH MAY NOT
BE TOO FAR OFF AS W FLOW FINALLY GIVES WAY LATER IN THE WEEK. DUE
TO UNCERTAINTY WILL LEAVE FCST ALONE...ROLLING NEAR CLIMO TEMPS AND
PCPN.
MARINE: QUIET THROUGH THE SHORT TERM...AND A TURN TO LIGHT S FLOW
AS FCST THEREAFTER.
FIRE WX: NW FLOW ON SAT ENHANCING THE DRY AIR IN PLACE...ESP
INTERIOR...SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO GET 2-4 HOURS OF DURATION (GIVEN
HIGH AFTN TEMPS) AWAY FROM THE COAST. WILL HOIST WATCH FOR ALL BUT
THE SW COUNTIES ON SAT.
PRELIM NUMBERS:
TPA BB 073/089/073/089 1111
FMY BB 072/090/072/090 1212 88
.TBW...FIRE WX WATCH THROUGH SUNSET LEVY...CITRUS...SUMTER...
AND HERNANDO COUNTIES.
...FIRE WX WATCH SATURDAY FOR SUMTER...POLK...HIGHLANDS...HARDEE
AND DESOTO COUNTIES.
...FIRE WX WATCH SATURDAY FOR INTERIOR LEVY...CITRUS...
HERNANDO...PASCO...HILLSBOROUGH...MANATEE...SARASOTA COUNTIES.
GOLDSMITHThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The public reported, through WTVT-TV (FOX) in Tampa, golfball sized hail, which caused paint damage to several vehicles near the intersection of Main Street (U.S. Highway 92) and Combee Road (State Road 659) in Lakeland.
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, May 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: 5247520.