Tornado, Charlotte
- When
- July 30, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Charlotte County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Deaths
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 27.000, -82.130
Tornado and Hail in Florida, July 30, 1968
1 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Event by event
1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Charlotte
- When
- July 30, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Charlotte County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 27.000, -82.080
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 30, 1968
- Tornado in Wisconsin, July 30, 1968
- Tornado in Minnesota, July 30, 1968
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 30, 1968
- Hail in South Dakota, July 30, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 30, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 30, 1968
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 30, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 30, 1968
More
Every storm in Florida in 1968Every state in 1968This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1968
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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 9988760, 9988761.