5 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 14, 5:20 AM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
620 AM EDT FRI SEP 14 2001
BASED ON CURRENT RADAR TRENDS AND NHC TRACK...HAVE GONE WITH AN
INLAND TROPICAL STORM WIND WARNING FOR INTERIOR COUNTIES.
ALSO...TORNADO WATCH AND TROPICAL STORM WARNING HAVE BEEN POSTED.
.MLB...TROPICAL STORM WARNING VOLUSIA...BREVARD...INDIAN RIVER...
ST LUCIE AND MARTIN COUNTIES.
...SMALL CRAFT SHOULD REMAIN IN PORT PORT - FLAGLER BEACH TO
JUPITER INLET.
...FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES THROUGH SATURDAY.
...TORNADO WATCH ALL ZONES UNTIL 11 AM...
...INLAND TROPICAL STORM WIND WARNING TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR
INLAND VOLUSIA...SEMINOLE...LAKE...ORANGE AND OKEECHOBEE
COUNTIES...
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...TROPICAL STORM GABRIELLE HEADED TOWARD CENTRAL FLORIDA...
...SIGNIFICANT FLOODING POSSIBLE...
GABRIELLE CONTINUES TO CHURN IN THE SOUTHEAST GULF OF MEXICO...
MOVING TOWARD THE ENE. AT THIS RATE...IT SHOULD MOVE ONSHORE THE SW
FLORIDA COAST TODAY....ACROSS THE PENINSULA TONIGHT...AND EMERGE OFF
THE EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA COAST SATURDAY. DEEP SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST
FLOW ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE STORM WILL CONTINUE TO ADVECT DEEP
TROPICAL MOISTURE ACROSS THE REGION. PRIMARY CONCERN IS FOR
SIGNIFICANT FLOODING TO DEVELOP...WITH SEVERAL MORE INCHES OF RAIN
EXPECTED THROUGH SATURDAY ONTO ALREADY SATURATED GROUND.
WILL LIKELY NEED TO INCLUDE INLAND TROPICAL STORM WIND WATCH FOR
INTERIOR COUNTIES TONIGHT...GIVEN THE NHC TRACK. WILL WAIT FOR 4 AM
CONF CALL BEFORE OFFICIALLY ISSUING IT. INCREASING SOUTH TO
SOUTHEAST WINDS EXPECTED TO CREATE A STRONG LONGSHORE CURRENT AT THE
COAST...PRODUCING BEACH EROSION...AND PILE WATER AGAINST SOUTH
FACING STRUCTURES IN THE INTRACOASTAL WATERS. GREATEST THREAT FOR
EROSION AND MINOR COASTAL FLOODING WILL BE NORTH OF THE STORM
TRACK...ESP VOLUSIA COUNTY WHERE ONSHORE FLOW (MORE PERPENDICULAR TO
THE COAST) WILL BE PROLONGED. DEPENDING ON THE EXACT TRACK OF
GABRIELLE...BREVARD COUNTY MAY BE AT RISK AS WELL.
AVN IS DEEPEST AND SLOWEST WITH TC GABRIELLE...BUT CURRENT RADAR
TRENDS INDICATE THE ETA/NGM HAVE A BETTER HANDLE ON MOVEMENT. ONCE
THE SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE ATLC...SOME TROUGHINESS MAY LINGER BACK
ACROSS THE PENINSULA...BUT RAIN COVERAGE WILL BE REDUCED. SO PLAN TO
LOWER POPS FOR SAT...THOUGH KEEP THEM IN THE LIKELY CATEGORY. IT IS
NOT UNCOMMON TO HAVE A LOCAL EXCESSIVE RAIN EVENT IN THE WAKE OF A
DEPARTING TROPICAL CYCLONE. MUCH DRIER AIR IS PROGGED TO OVERSPREAD
THE AREA SUN. SO WILL LOWER POPS ACROSS THE BOARD TO 30%. PRESSURE
GRAD BETWEEN TC GABRIELLE AND SFC HIGH TO THE NORTH WILL PRODUCE
BREEZY CONDITIONS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. FOR NEXT WEEK...APPEARS A
PROLONGED PERIOD OF ONSHORE FLOW EXPECTED WITH DRY AIR MASS
GRADUALLY MODIFYING.
MARINE...WINDS INCREASING TO TROPICAL STORM STRENGTH BY SAT AS TC
GABRIELLE APPROACHES. MAY NEED TO KEEP SOME HEADLINES BEHIND THE
STORM...ESP NORTH LEG...AS PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN HIGH TO THE
NORTH AND GABRIELLE WILL KEEP WINDS UP.
COORDINATED WITH TPC.
DAB RW 080/074 082/073 083 +963
MCO RW 081/073 085/073 087 +763
MLB RW 082/075 085/075 086 +663
.MLB...TROPICAL STORM WATCH VOLUSIA...BREVARD...INDIAN RIVER...
ST LUCIE AND MARTIN COUNTIES.
SMALL CRAFT SHOULD NOT VENTURE FAR FROM PORT - FLAGLER BEACH
TO JUPITER INLET.
FLOOD WATCH - ALL ZONES THROUGH SATURDAY.
PUBLIC/MARINE...KELLY
AVIATION/FIRE WX...BLOTTMANAMZ550-555-570-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-144-147- 141050- EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 642 AM EDT FRI SEP 14 2001 FOR DETAILED INFORMATION REGARDING WEATHER HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM GABRIELLE AND THE EXPECTED IMPACTS TO EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...REFER TO THE LATEST HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT. PRODUCT: MIAHLSMLB KELLY
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 40 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:23 UTC.
5 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A rain band associated with Tropical Storm Gabrielle moving north along the Florida coastline produced a small F0 tornado just south of Sebastian Inlet. The tornado was on the ground briefly, blowing down a few trees, damaging a camp trailer and a picnic shelter.
A rain band associated with Tropical Storm Gabrielle moving north near the Florida coastline produced a small F0 tornado on the barrier island east of the Intracoastal Waterway. The tornado seriously damaged the roof of a boat dry storage building and overturned boats in the boatyard. A few trees were blown down and windows were blown out of automobiles.
A rain band associated with Tropical Storm Gabrielle moving north along the Florida coastline produced a small F1 tornado over Patrick Air Force Base. The tornado produced no damage but observation equipment recorded a gust to 86 knots as the tornado passed.
A rain band associated with Tropical Storm Gabrielle moving north along the Intracoastal Waterway moved onshore in the old downtown area of Cocoa. The tornado move northwest about 1.7 miles severely damaging the roof of a gas distributor, a bus station and two houses. The tornado damaged 6 mobile homes and blew out many windows.
A rain band associated with Tropical Storm Gabrielle moving north along the Florida coastline produced a small F0 tornado just north of Ponce Inlet. The tornado moved north northwest blowing down a few trees, destroying three mobile homes and damaging 12 others.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 2001Warnings 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: 5268059, 5268060, 5268061, 5268114, 5268115.