Tornado, Okaloosa
- When
- October 27, 5:30 AM CST
- Where
- Okaloosa County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 30.830, -86.600
Tornadoes in Florida, October 27, 1972
10 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 3
- Property damage
- $853,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 10
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
10 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Okaloosa
- When
- October 27, 5:45 AM CST
- Where
- Okaloosa County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 30.880, -86.500
Tornado, Gulf
- When
- October 27, 6:10 AM CST
- Where
- Gulf County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 29.780, -85.030
Tornado, Franklin
- When
- October 27, 8:05 AM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 29.620, -85.000
Tornado, Liberty
- When
- October 27, 9:15 AM CST
- Where
- Liberty County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 30.400, -84.800
Tornado, Gadsden
- When
- October 27, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Gadsden County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 30.600, -84.600
Tornado, Gadsden
- When
- October 27, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Gadsden County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 30.620, -84.620
Tornado, Franklin
- When
- October 27, 12:10 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 29.920, -84.330
Tornado, Jefferson
- When
- October 27, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 30.570, -83.750
Tornado, Taylor
- When
- October 27, 2:50 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 3.4 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 29.820, -83.580
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 9998307, 9998308, 9998309, 9998310, 9998311, 9998312, 9998313, 9999159, 9999160, 9999161.