1 high surf, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 13, 2:15 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
315 PM CDT THU SEP 13 2001
FOR NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS PLAN ON STICKING WITH DRY FORECAST...EXCEPT
FOR POTENTIAL OF SOME ISOLATED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FL
COAST. ETA/AVN DID A GOOD JOB PAST 36 HOURS DEPICTING DEEP LAYERED
DRYING THAT WORKED INTO REGION TODAY. SATELLITE AND UPPER AIR
ANALYSES INDICATE THAT THIS TREND SHOULD CONTINUE IN THE SHORT
TERM...AND MODELS CONCUR THAT IT SHOULD REMAIN SO AT LEAST THROUGH
SATURDAY. SO...WITH DRIER AIR IN PLACE NEXT COUPLE OF NIGHTS WILL
BE COOLER...WITH BREEZY LESS HUMID AFTERNOONS...A REAL TASTE OF FALL.
OF COURSE...FORECAST NEXT 2-5 DAYS DEPENDS HEAVILY ON THE TRACK AND
POTENTIAL STRENGTHENING OF TROPICAL STORM GABRIELLE CURRENTLY
MEANDERING SLOWLY AROUND THE SOUTHEAST GULF. PREMISE OF NWS
FORECAST IS FOR GABRIELLE TO WANDER AROUND NEXT FEW HOURS DOWN
THERE...THEN SLOWLY BECOME INFLUENCED BY A TROUGH MOVING DOWN FROM
THE NORTHWEST BY FRIDAY. AS THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE TROUGH MOVES
INTO THE CAROLINAS LATE FRIDAY...GABRIELLE SHOULD START MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST. FOR NOW OUR FORECAST IS WEIGHTED HEAVILY ON THIS
TRACK...KEEPING US ON THE DRY NORTHWESTERN PERIPHERY OF THE SYSTEM.
AMOUNT OF DRY AIR MOVING DOWN INTO THE WEST SIDE OF THE TROPICAL
STORM AS WELL AS LATEST REPOSITIONING OF THE CENTER TO THE EAST BY
NHC INDICATES A TRACK EAST OF OUR AREA AND RELATIVELY DRY WEATHER TO
CONTINUE FOR OUR AREA. STAY TUNED.
ON THE WIND FORECAST...WILL CONTINUE TO WORD FOR BREEZY AFTERNOONS
AND GOOD MIXING GIVEN CONTINUED TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN
SURFACE RIDGE TO THE NORTH AND GABRIELLE TO THE SOUTH. HAVE HOISTED
THE HEAVY SURF ADVISORIES ALONG THE BEACHES SINCE WAVE PERIODS HAVE
CONTINUED TO INCREASE OFFSHORE...AND FACT THAT BEACH OFFICIALS ARE
REPORTING ROUGH SURF CONDITIONS ALREADY.
IN THE MARINE FORECAST...NOT A WHOLE LOT OF CHANGE TO WHAT WE HAVE
OUT...ABOVE NORMAL SEAS AND INCREASED WINDS THROUGH AT LEAST
SATURDAY.
/05
PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
MOB UB 065/090 067/088 067 05--02
PNS UB 069/089 069/088 069 05--02
DTS UB 070/089 070/088 070 05--02
GZH UU 063/090 065/088 065 050-0-
61A UU 063/090 065/088 065 050-0-
2R0 UU 063/090 064/088 065 050-0-
.MOB...
AL...HEAVY SURF ADVISORY DAUPHIN ISLAND TO THE FL STATE LINE.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GMZ630-650-670.
FL...HEAVY SURF ADVISORY AL STATE LINE TO DESTIN.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GMZ655-675.
MS...NONE.1 high surf. Local standard time, as filed.
High surf along the beach caused a retaining wall behind a Pensacola Beach condominium to collapse. A Heavy Surf Advisory was in effect for area beaches, as large swells, propagating northward from Tropical Storm Gabrielle, which was over the far southern Gulf of Mexico, were producing high surf.
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: 5268222.