A sea breeze front moved inland and produced gusty onshore flow as the tide was going out. This setup is favorable for rip currents in west central Florida.
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 episode as NWS TBW wrote it up.
A sea breeze front moved inland and produced gusty onshore flow as the tide was going out. This setup is favorable for rip currents in west central Florida.
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 Jul 6, 12:46 PM EST, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 146 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 2013 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-MONDAY)... U/L RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WITH INCREASING MID LEVEL DRY AIR AND STRONG SUBSIDENCE ALOFT MOVING OVER THE REGION. SURFACE RIDGE AXIS WILL REMAIN NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA WHICH WILL CONTINUE EAST TO SOUTHEAST BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW ACROSS THE PENINSULA. THIS WILL HOLD THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY NEAR THE COAST EACH DAY WHICH WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. DRIER AIR ALOFT AND INCREASING SUBSIDENCE WILL DECREASE AREAL COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND DELAY DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS UNTIL MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. DRY AIR ALOFT...STRONG SURFACE HEATING...AND POTENTIAL FOR STRONG UPDRAFTS WITH STORMS WILL INCREASE THREAT FOR A FEW STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH MAIN THREAT DOWNBURST WINDS. COMBINATION OF STRONG SUBSIDENCE...EAST/SOUTHEAST FLOW...AND DECREASED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL ALSO ALLOW DAYTIME TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB INTO THE MID 90S IN MANY AREAS. TUTT LOW CURRENTLY EAST OF THE BAHAMAS WILL PUSH GRADUALLY WEST AND MOVE ACROSS THE CENTRAL BAHAMAS ON MONDAY. AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COME UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SUBSIDENCE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THIS SYSTEM MONDAY...THIS WILL FURTHER DECREASE AREAL COVERAGE OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WITH ONLY LOW END SCATTERED ACTIVITY EXPECTED NEAR THE COAST FROM TAMPA BAY SOUTH TO FORT MYERS...WITH ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ELSEWHERE. .LONG TERM (MONDAY NIGHT-FRIDAY)... SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC...KEEPING EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS IN PLACE THROUGH MUCH OF THE LONG TERM PERIOD. A TUTT IS FORECAST TO MOVE OVER THE STATE WEDNESDAY...WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER RAIN CHANCES MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY AS IT APPROACHES. OTHERWISE EXPECT SEASONABLE RAIN CHANCES DUE TO SEA BREEZE AND OTHER BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN NEAR NORMAL. && .AVIATION... TOWERING CU DEVELOPING ALONG THE INTERIOR OF THE PENINSULA OF FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD LATER THIS AFTERNOON...WITH ACTIVITY EXPECTED EARLIEST AT THE SOUTHERN AND INLAND TERMINALS. STORMS WILL DRIFT TO THE WEST-NORTHWEST INTO THE GULF BY EVENING BEFORE DIMINISHING AFTER SUNSET. VARIABLE GUSTINESS AND MVFR CAN BE EXPECTED WITH CONVECTION...WITH IFR POSSIBLE DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL. WINDS WILL REMAIN FROM THE EAST-SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .MARINE... WINDS 15 KNOTS OR LESS WITH SEAS 4 FEET OR LESS THROUGH THE PERIOD. MAIN HAZARD WILL BE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS. && .FIRE WEATHER... NO FIRE WEATHER HAZARDS THROUGH THE PERIOD. ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL KEEP AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS EACH DAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TPA 76 93 77 93 / 20 40 20 30 FMY 74 94 75 93 / 20 40 20 30 GIF 73 93 74 93 / 10 30 10 20 SRQ 75 93 75 94 / 20 40 20 30 BKV 73 94 72 94 / 20 30 20 20 SPG 79 92 79 91 / 20 40 20 30 && .TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GULF WATERS...NONE. && SHORT TERM/MARINE/FIRE WEATHER...13/OGLESBY LONG TERM/AVIATION...02/GARCIA
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 531 AM EDT SAT JUL 6 2013 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-GMZ830-850-853-856-870- 873-876-062145- LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK- MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DESOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE- TAMPA BAY WATERS-TARPON SPRINGS TO SUWANNEE RIVER OUT 20 NM- ENGLEWOOD TO TARPON SPRINGS OUT 20 NM- BONITA BEACH TO ENGLEWOOD OUT 20 NM- TARPON SPRINGS TO SUWANNEE RIVER OUT 20 TO 60 NM- ENGLEWOOD TO TARPON SPRINGS OUT 20 TO 60 NM- BONITA BEACH TO ENGLEWOOD OUT 20 TO 60 NM- 531 AM EDT SAT JUL 6 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE AREA TODAY...WITH THE HIGHEST CHANCES CLOSER TO THE COAST. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS REMAIN A POSSIBILITY. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES. ...RIVER FLOOD IMPACT... A FEW RIVERS REMAIN ABOVE FLOOD STAGE TODAY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD EXACERBATE CONDITIONS AND CAUSE A FURTHER INCREASE IN WATER LEVELS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG SEA BREEZE AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS. SLIGHTLY LESS COVERAGE IS EXPECTED MONDAY AND TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. CARLISLE
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A 14-year-old Polk County boy swimming with his younger brother off the beach at the northern tip of Anna Maria Island disappeared Saturday afternoon, swept away by a rip current.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Manatee | 2013-07-06 | 14 | Female | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, July 2013
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: 479079.