1 lightning, 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 28, 6:25 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 725 PM EDT THU JUN 28 2001 TWO AREAS OF CONVECTION FIRED THIS AFTERNOON...ONE ASSOCIATED W/ GULF SEA BREEZE MOVING NWD ACROSS ERN FL PNHDL INTO SE AL & THE OTHER AS E COAST SEA BREEZE ADVANCED WWD ACROSS FL BIG BEND INTO SW/SCNTRL GA. THE WEAK TROPICAL WAVE OFF THE W COAST OF FL PENINSULA AIDED & ABETTED DEVELOPMENT W/ DEEP LAYER MOISTURE (PWAT AROUND 1.75) & INSTABILITY (LIS -4 TO -6) ACROSS THE CWFA. QUICK GLANCE AT REGIONAL RADARS SHOWS ACTIVITY GRADUALLY WINDING DOWN OVER FL ZONES WHILE STILL ACTIVE OVER AL & GA ZONES. OVER COASTAL WATERS...SEA BREEZE CONVECTION HAD SIGNIFICANTLY DIMINISHED. LIKE YESTERDAY EVENING...EXPECT CONVECTION TO SLOWLY DIMINISH LATER THIS EVENING & WILL UPDATE ZONES TO DROP/LOWER POPS. FOR 1030 PM CWF ISSUANCE...ONLY MINOR COSMETIC CHANGES ANTICIPATED ATTM. .TLH... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. MAJ
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck the 911 communications tower in Tifton. Several power lines down along U.S. Highway 82 just east of Tifton. Reported by the Tift County Sheriff.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, June 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: 5251046.