1 wildfire, 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 May 8, 7:30 AM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 830 AM EDT MON MAY 8 2006 .DISCUSSION...AREAS OF FOG ARE STILL PERSISTING OVER MUCH OF THE COASTAL COUNTIES WITH SOME LOCATIONS DOWN TO 1/4 SM VISIBILITIES. SATURATION AT THE SURFACE IS COMBINING WITH CALM WINDS TO PROVIDE IDEAL CONDITIONS FOR FOG DEVELOPMENT. DRIVERS SHOULD EXCERSICE CAUTION...ESPECIALLY OVER THE MAJOR INTERSTATES AND HIGHWAYS WHILE THE FOG SLOWLY DISSIPATES. THE FOG MAY PERSIST UNTIL AROUND 900 AM EDT AND SHOULD BE ON ITS WAY OUT BY 1000 AM EDT AS THE SURFACE HEATS UP AND WINDS PICK UP. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY IN THE EVENING OVER THE NORTHERN NATURE COUNTIES AS ANOTHER SHORT WAVE TROUGH RACES OVER THE SOUTHEAST U.S. AND NORTHERN FLORIDA. MORNING FORECAST PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD AND NO CHANGES ARE PLANNED AT THIS TIME. && .MARINE...NO HIGHLIGHTS EXPECTED OVER THE COASTAL WATERS THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY EXCEPT OVER THE NORTHERN-MOST WATERS WHERE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING PERIODS THROUGH TUESDAY. && .AVIATION...LCL MVFR AND ISOLD IFR DUE TO MORNING FOG. THIS SHOULD BURN OFF IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO...THEN EXPECTING MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS REST OF TODAY WITH MID AND HIGH CLOUDS. && .TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GULF WATERS...NONE. && DISCUSSION...REYNES AVIATION...PETRO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 447 AM EDT MON MAY 8 2006 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-081500- LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK- MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 447 AM EDT MON MAY 8 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AND WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER THE PANHANDLE WILL BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OVER THE NATURE COAST COUNTIES TODAY. AN OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKE IS POSSIBLE IN THESE STORMS AS WELL AS BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SLIGHT RAIN CHANCES ARE EXPECTED MAINLY ACROSS THE NATURE COAST COUNTIES AND THE INTERIOR COUNTIES OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ON FRIDAY...ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH AND MAY PASS THROUGH THE PENINSULA. SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...BRINGING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER A MORE WIDESPREAD AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. RJS
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Interstate 75 was closed for six hours between Gibsonton Drive and Big Bend Road as 130 emergency workers fought the blaze with plows, helicopters, brush trucks and water tankers. Thousands of people were evacuated in developments east of the interstate when the fire jumped the road.
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, May 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: 5505440.