Tornado, Pinellas
- When
- June 29, 10:43 AM CST
- Where
- Pinellas County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 13 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 27.830, -82.780
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 29, 1978
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- 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 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Pinellas
- When
- June 29, 12:45 PM CST
- Where
- Pinellas County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 28.150, -82.750
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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Wyoming, June 29, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 29, 1978
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 29, 1978
- Tornado and Hail in Alabama, June 29, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, June 29, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 29, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 29, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 29, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Hampshire, June 29, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 29, 1978
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, June 29, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Delaware, June 29, 1978
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: 9999010, 9999011.