Thunderstorm Wind, Brantley
- When
- June 21, 12:30 PM EST
- Where
- Brantley County, Hickox
- Property damage
- $500
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.150, -82.000
Large trees were blown down.
Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 21, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $500
- 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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 21, 8:20 AM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 8:20 AM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 920 AM EDT THU JUN 21 2001 CURRENTLY...SHOWERS AND TSTMS GETTING AN EARLY START ACROSS N GA ZONES. THIS IS IN ASSOCIATION WITH A FAIRLY POTENT SHORTWAVE THAT IS PICKED UP WELL BY THE MESO-ETA. EVIDENCE OF THIS IS CONVECTION AT SUCH AN EARLY HOUR. PUBLIC...WILL AMEND ZONES TO INDICATE BETTER POPS IN GA...AS WELL AS REMOVE AFTN WORDING. ACTIVITY MAY BE SUPPRESSED SOMEWHAT BY NEG VORT ADVECTION OVER N FL. WILL LIKELY SEE SIMILAR OR LESS ACTIVITY IN FL TODAY...WITH STORMS FORMING LATER IN THE DAY. IN ADDITION... KJAX 12Z SOUNDING IS DRIER THAN YESTERDAY (1.4 PWAT) AND SLIGHTLY MORE STABLE. HOWEVER... STORMS THAT DO FORM WILL HAVE A GREATER POTENTIAL FOR WIND GUSTS AND HAIL (WB ZERO HEIGHT IS JUST BELOW 10K). SLIGHT INCREASE IN S FLOW ALOFT WILL VERY GRADUALLY INCREASE MOISTURE THRU THE DAY. MARINE...WILL INDICATE SEABREEZE CIRCULATION IN CWF. OTHERWISE... LITTLE CHANGE. .JAX... FL...NONE. GA...NONE. CARROLL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 10:14 AM EST, 2 hours 16 minutes before
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-212200- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1200 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001 A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN COMBINATION WITH HEATING AND SEABREEZES WILL ONCE AGAIN LEAD TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MOST OF THE COVERAGE OF THE HEAVIER STORMS WILL BE ACROSS THE INLAND AREAS...GENERALLY WEST OF INTERSTATE 95. A COUPLE OF STORMS MAY BECOME BRIEFLY SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. ALL STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF FREQUENT DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN THAT COULD CAUSE TEMPORARY FLOODING OF SOME LOW LYING AREAS. DUE TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME SEVERE WEATHER...STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLEC WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX.
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 11:00 AM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-212200- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1200 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001 A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN COMBINATION WITH HEATING AND SEABREEZES WILL ONCE AGAIN LEAD TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MOST OF THE COVERAGE OF THE HEAVIER STORMS WILL BE ACROSS THE INLAND AREAS...GENERALLY WEST OF INTERSTATE 95. A COUPLE OF STORMS MAY BECOME BRIEFLY SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. ALL STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF FREQUENT DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN THAT COULD CAUSE TEMPORARY FLOODING OF SOME LOW LYING AREAS. DUE TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME SEVERE WEATHER...STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX.
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:28 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 21, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 21, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, June 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: 5255712.