Florida

Storms in Florida in 1959

38 events in 28 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Florida in 1959, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Florida in 1959 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Florida

The year

Events
38
Deaths
1
Injuries
105
Damage
$3.3 million
Episodes
28

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado181105$3.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind1400
Hail600

Every episode, month by month

January 1959

February 1959

March 1959

April 1959

May 1959

June 1959

July 1959

September 1959

October 1959

November 1959

More

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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.