1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 28, 2:00 PM EST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 300 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2001 TURNED OUT TO BE QUITE AN ACTIVE DAY WITH MOIST SW FLOW STIMULATING SEA BREEZE WHICH DEVELOPED BY 9 AM ACROSS PANHANDLE COAST AND THEN SPREAD NORTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH. SHOWERS...THEN THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED BY MID MORNING ALONG BOUNDARY. SEVERAL CLASHES BETWEEN NEWD DRIFTING SEA BREEZE AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES SPARKED SEVERAL STRONG STORMS. AROUND 11 AM...BOW ECHO CONFIGURATION DEVELOPED JUST UPSTREAM FROM SE ALA NECESSITATING A WARNING. CURRENTLY STRONG TSTMS DEVELOPING IN TRIANGLE AREA BOUNDED BY GADSDEN NORTHEAST THRU THOMAS AND SE TO MADISON COUNTIES. OTHERWISE...WEATHER PIX SHOWS WNW FLOW DOMINATG MUCH OF CONUS WITH SPLIT FLOW IN CNTRL CONUS. SRN STREAM MORE ACTIVE ESPECIALLY ACROSS SE STATES. ALOFT...LARGE UPPER LOW ACROSS NE STATES AND UPPER RIDGE CENTERED OVER S TEXAS. VARIOUS UPPER VORTS ROLLING AROUND RIDGE AND ACROSS ALA/GA ENHANCING SEA BREEZE DYNAMICS. AT SURFACE W-E RIDGE REMAINS WELL S OF LOCAL AREA WITH WEAK FRONT JUST N OF CWFA. FOR THIS EVENING...CONVECTION TO CONT ESPECIALLY ACROSS GEORGIA INTO LATE EVENING WHERE I WILL PUT 50 PCT POPS. ELSEWHERE 20 PCT SE BIG BEND AND 30-40 PCT ELSEWHERE. WITH AMPLE MOISTURE AND SMOKE FROM MALLORY SWAMP FIRE EXPECT ANOTHER PERIOD OF VERY LOW VISIBILITIES AND WILL CONT RECENT WORDING IN THIS ZONE. WITH AMPLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL ADD PATCHY FOG TO MOST ZONES. SIMILIAR SYNOPTIC PATTERN TOMORROW SO EXPECT SIMILIAR PATTERN. EXTENDED...AS PREVIOUS FORECASTER NOTED...LATEST MEDIUM-RANGE GUIDANCE HAS STALLED BACK-DOOR FRONT OVER CWFA WEDNESDAY LIFTING NWD AS WARM FRONT LATE THURSDAY AHEAD OF POTENT SHORTWAVE TROUGH & SURFACE LOW. TRAILING COLD FRONT PROGGED TO PUSH THRU THE CWFA FRIDAY NIGHT/EARLY SATURDAY MORNING...FOLLOWED BY SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS & LOWER HUMIDITIES AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE ERN CONUS FOR THE WEEKEND. MARINE:CWF BROKEN UP INTO PANHANDLE AND APALACH BAY WATERS WITH SLIGHT DIFFERENCE THRU THE PERIODPRELIM CCF... PRELIM CCF... TLH BB 67 89 66 90 4322 PFN BB 71 84 70 85 4312 DHN EB 68 87 68 88 4322 ABY EB 69 85 64 88 4322 VLD EB 67 88 66 90 5412 .TLH... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...RED FLAG WARNING FOR HIGH DISPERSION INLAND AREAS REST OF TODAY. BLOCK
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:57 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Downed trees on Barrington Rd, White House Rd, Paul Thompson Rd and Highway 59 in Lloyd. Reported by the Jefferson County EMA.
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: 5247421.