High Wind in Florida, October 26 to 28, 2001

Name: High Wind in Florida, October 26 to 28, 2001
Start: 2001-10-26T23:00
End: 2001-10-28T15:00
Location: Florida

October 26 to 28, 2001 · NWS MFL · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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.

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 26, 8:15 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 8:15 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
915 PM EDT FRI OCT 26 2001

COLD FRONT SEEMS TO BE ACROSS SOUTHEAST FLORIDA AT 01Z WITH
DEWPOINTS ALREADY IN THE LOW/MID 60S ACROSS INTERIOR AND WEST
SECTIONS...AND UPPER 60S MIAMI-DADE AND BROWARD COUNTIES. FRONT WILL
CONTINUE IT PROGRESS SOUTHEASTWARD TONIGHT AND SO THE CLOUDS AND
PRECIP IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH ACROSS ALL AREAS TONIGHT.
CURRENTLY...RADAR SHOWING A CLUSTER OF CONVECTION SOUTHEAST OF
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY...WHILE LIGHT PRECIP IS INDICATED OVER SE PALM
BEACH/NORTHERN BROWARD...HOWEVER THIS PRECIP HAS DECREASING
STEADILY. SO I DECIDED TO GET RID OF PRECIP/CLOUDS FOR THE REST OF
TONIGHT.

TEMPERATUREWISE...TEMPERATURES ARE RUNNING MAYBE 1 OR 2 DEGREES
HIGHER THAN GUIDANCE...BUT BELIEVE IS DUE TO CLOUD COVER...SO WHEN
CLOUDS FINALLY MOVE OUT OF THE AREA LATER TONIGHT...ACTUAL
TEMPERATURES WILL APPROXIMATE GUIDANCE VALUES.

.MIA...SCA ALL WATERS EXCEPT LAKE OKEECHOBEE.
       FIRE WEATHER WATCH INTERIOR AND WESTERN SECTIONS SATURDAY
       AFTERNOON.

GARCIA

The radar

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

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Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Coastal Dade

When: October 26, 11:00 PM EST to October 28, 3:00 PM EST
Where: Coastal Dade forecast zone
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 25.609, -80.499 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A 21-foot fishing boat capsized in rough seas in the Atlantic just offshore Elliot Key. Of the three persons aboard, two were rescued while clinging to a buoy, while the third person drowned. Winds were northeast 20 to 25 knots and a small craft advisory was in effect.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
High Wind, Coastal Dade	2001-10-27	50	Male	In Water	Direct

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

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

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Florida in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Florida, October 2001

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: 5270503.