Tornado, Suwannee
- When
- June 20, 12:35 PM CST
- Where
- Suwannee County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 30.130, -83.220
Tornado in Florida, June 20, 1979
1 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $30
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, June 20, 1979
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, June 20, 1979
- Tornado and Hail in Indiana, June 20, 1979
- Tornado in Iowa, June 20, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 20, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 20, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, June 20, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 20, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 20, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 20, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 20, 1979
More
Every storm in Florida in 1979Every state in 1979This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1979
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: 10000758.