1 waterspout, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 11, 1:10 PM EST, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...COR TO CCF POPS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 210 PM EDT TUE SEP 11 2001 MSAS AT 17Z SHOWS A VERY WEAK FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA AND ALABAMA THEN SOUTHWEST INTO THE CENTRAL GULF AND A 1013 MB LOW IN THE EASTERN GULF WEST OF FORT MYERS. LOCAL RADARS SHOW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MOVING IN FROM EAST OVER OUR GEORGIA AND FLORIDA BIG BEND ZONES. MODELS/ZFP: ALL EYES WILL BE ON DEVELOPING SURFACE LOW OVER EASTERN GULF. MODELS INITIALIZED THIS FEATURE WELL WITH THE AVN AND ETA IN CLOSE AGREEMENT ON POSITION AND STRENGTH. THE AVN AND ETA ARE ALSO IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT IN KEEPING THE LOW NEARLY STATIONARY THROUGH 48 HOURS AND THEN BEGIN TO LIFT IT NORTHEAST TOWARD WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA NEAR TAMPA BY THURSDAY EVENING. THE NGM SENDS THE LOW WESTWARD INTO THE CENTRAL GULF WITHOUT STRENGTHENING IT AND WILL DISCOUNT. THE AVN AND ETA BOTH DEEPEN THIS LOW OVER THE SHORT TERM PERIOD WITH THE AVN GENERALLY 1 TO 3 MB STRONGER. SURFACE LOW CROSSES THE FLORIDA PENINSULA ON FRIDAY AND EMERGES INTO THE ATLANTIC OFF OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA AS UPPER TROUGH DEEPENS DOWN THE U.S EAST COAST. WITH THIS SCENARIO...POPS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE THROUGH THURSDAY WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER PERCENTAGES OVER OUR EASTERN ZONES AS THE BULK OF THE DEEP LAYER MOISTURE WILL BE ACROSS THIS REGION. WILL BEGIN TO DRY OUT FROM WEST TO EAST ON FRIDAY. EXTENDED: AS UPPER TROUGH CONTINUES TO DEEPEN DOWN THE ENTIRE U. S. EAST COAST A SURFACE FRONT APPROACHES AND PUSHES THROUGH THE CWA LATE FRIDAY/SATURDAY MORNING WITH MUCH DRIER AIR FILTERING IN ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA. WILL REMOVE MENTION OF POPS FOR SATURDAY AND KEEP INHERITED SLIGHT POPS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD. COOLER TEMPS FOR THIS WEEKEND WITH LOWS IN GENERALLY IN THE LOWER TO MID 60S AND HIGHS IN THE 80S. MARINE: AS LOW DEVELOPS...CONDITIONS WILL GRADUALLY DETERIORATE ACROSS OUR LOCAL WATERS. WILL INCREASE WINDS TO SCEC CRITERIA TONIGHT. WINDS AND SEAS ARE FORECAST TO INCREASE TO SCA CONDITIONS ON WEDNESDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON...THEN BEGIN TO IMPROVE LATE FRIDAY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: TLH 074 089 072 086 3546 PFN 075 088 074 087 3546 DHN 072 088 071 086 3435 ABY 071 086 071 085 3546 VLD 072 087 072 083 3546 .TLH... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. BARRY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
Three waterspouts were reported near Seagrove 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: 5267674.