1 cold/wind chill, 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 5, 8:15 PM EST, 6 hours 45 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 815 PM EST THU JAN 5 2006 .DISCUSSION...COLD FRONT HEADED OUR WAY...LOCATED AT 00Z FROM JUST NW OF JAX SOUTHWEST TO NEAR CEDAR KEY...THEN SOUTHWEST INTO THE EASTERN GULF. THIS FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH THE TAMPA BAY THEN FORT MYERS AREAS OVERNIGHT AND SHOULD MAKE IT TO MIA BY SUNRISE. 00Z SOUNDING (PREFRONTAL) GENERALLY DRY AND STABLE...SO OTHER THAN A VERY ISOLD SPRINKLE OR LIGHT SHOWER...EXPECTING THIS FRONT TO COME THRU DRY. CURRENT 10 POPS OVERNIGHT SHOULD COVER RISK OF ISOLD SHOWERS. ONCE THE FRONT MOVES THRU THE WINDS WILL TURN TO THE NW AND INCREASE AND THE CAA WILL BEGIN. THE CAA WILL BEGIN IN THE MIDDLE TROP AND GRADUALLY WORK ITS WAY DOWN. AS SUCH...NOT EXPECTING TONIGHTS LOWS TO FALL MUCH BELOW THE LOWER 40S UP NORTH AND LOWER 50S DOWN SOUTH. TEMPS ON FRI WILL BE VERY SLOW TO RISE FROM EARLY MORNING LOWS WITH CAA CONTINUING...COLD AIR STRATO CU FROM OFF THE WATER RESULTING IN CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS...AND A BRISK NW WIND THAT WILL MAKE DAYTIME TEMPS FEEL QUITE CHILLY. CURRENT FORECAST IN GOOD SHAPE FOR THIS EVENINGS UPDATE...NO SIGNIF CHANGES PLANNED. && .MARINE...NW WINDS AND SEAS WILL INCREASE OVERNIGHT TO SCA CRITERIA BEHIND THE FRONT. SCA ALREADY POSTED AND HIGH SURF FOR THE BEACHES FROM HILLSBOROUGH CO SOUTH TO LEE CO. && .AVIATION...MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED WITH THE MAIN CONCERN BEING A FAIRLY RAPID WIND SHIFT FROM SOUTHWESTERLY TO NORTHWESTERLY BEHIND THE APPROACHING COLD FRONT. THIS WIND SHIFT SHOULD OCCUR BETWEEN 03Z AND 05Z FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE WE COULD SEE IFR CONDITIONS AT FMY AND RSW LATE TONIGHT WITH SHALLOW MOISTURE HANGING IN UNTIL JUST BEFORE SUNRISE. && .TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ...FREEZE WATCH FOR LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING FOR LEVY...CITRUS...SUMTER...HERNANDO...AND PASCO COUNTIES. ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM TONIGHT THROUGH 3 AM SATURDAY MORNING FOR BONITA BEACH TO THE SUWANNEE RIVER OUT 60NM INCLUDING TAMPA BAY. ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING FOR AREA BEACHES OF HILLSBOROUGH...PINELLAS... MANATEE...SARASOTA...CHARLOTTE AND LEE COUNTIES. ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR LEVY...CITRUS..SUMTER... HERNANDO...PASCO...HILLSBOROUGH...POLK...HARDEE...HIGHLANDS... DESOTO...CHARLOTTE...AND LEE COUNTIES. && NP/EJ
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...RESENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 411 AM EST THU JAN 5 2006 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-051530- LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK- MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 411 AM EST THU JAN 5 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AND WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY STRONG CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION AND FILTER A VERY COLD AIRMASS OVER THE AREA THIS WEEKEND. AT THIS TIME...FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED OVER THE NATURE COAST COMBINED WITH WIND CHILL VALUES AROUND 20 LATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. FREEZING OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES ARE AGAIN EXPECTED SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING WITH LIGHT WINDS TO PRODUCE AREAS OF FROST AS WELL. FROM AROUND THE TAMPA BAY AREA SOUTHWARD TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 30 WILL COMBINE WITH 10 TO 15 MPH WINDS TO CREATE WIND CHILL VALUES 25 TO 30 LATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S ARE AGAIN EXPECTED SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING WITH LIGHT WINDS TO PRODUCE PATCHY FROST AS WELL IN THE NORMALLY COLDER LOCATIONS. RESIDENTS SHOULD PLAN ACCORDINGLY FOR THESE COLD CONDITIONS THIS WEEKEND. STRONG HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING OVER THE EASTERN GULF WATERS WILL GENERATE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...ELEVATED SEAS...AND LARGE BREAKING WAVES EARLY FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. FISHERMEN AND OTHER SMALL CRAFT OPERATORS MAY WANT TO PLAN TO POSTPONE TRIPS UNTIL CONDITIONS IMPROVE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW
1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
Arctic air overspread the Nature Coast and caused the coldest air of the season. The temperature six miles southeast of Chiefland dropped to 30 degrees and Bronson dropped to 31 degrees. Temperatures dropped briefly into the low to mid 30s across the inland areas of Citrus, Hernando, Sumter, and Pasco counties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, January 2006
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: 5493021.