2 waterspout, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 1, 9:00 AM EST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1000 AM EDT SAT SEP 01 2001 CURRENT RADAR DATA SHOWS OFFSHORE SHOWERS DECREASING WITH CLOUD COVER LIMITING HEATING WHICH WOULD FUEL GROWTH. WV/IR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS A WIDE SWATH OF CLOUDS COVERING EAST TEXAS AND THE GULF STATES...WITH CONSIDERABLE PRE-FRONTAL CONVECTION OVER SOUTHERN LA/MS PRECEEDING A TROPICAL SURFACE LOW MOVING NORTHEAST ALONG THE TX COAST. AS THIS LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST EXPECT SHOWERS TO INCREASE...BUT AIRMASS IS FAIRLY STABLE SO DO NOT EXPECT SEVERE. FORECASTS ARE ON TRACK...NO CHANGES PLANNED. .TLH... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. AFD
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-011015- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 600 AM EDT SAT SEP 1 2001 THE PROXIMITY OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND AMPLE TROPICAL AIR WILL AGAIN GENERATE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. ALTHOUGH A FEW MAY BE BRIEFLY SEVERE... WIDESPREAD SEVERE ACTIVITY IS NOT FORECASTED. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THEREFORE...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE LIKELY TODAY. HOWEVER EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN VIGILENT AND REPORT ANY SEVERE OR POTENTIALLY SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING PROBLEMS. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE VIA OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TLH/ OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS. BLOCK
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:39 UTC.
2 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
A waterspout was reported by the public and Franklin County EMA.
A waterspout was reported southeast of Miramar Beach by the Walton 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, September 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: 5267672, 5267673.