Tornado, Duval
- When
- May 11, 2:15 PM CST
- Where
- Duval County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 30.470, -81.630
Tornadoes in Florida, May 11, 1979
2 tornado, 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
- 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
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, De Soto
- When
- May 11, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- De Soto County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 27.030, -81.970
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
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 11, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 11, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 11, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 11, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 11, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 11, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, May 11, 1979
- Hail in Texas, May 11, 1979
- Hail in Pennsylvania, May 11, 1979
- Hail in North Carolina, May 11, 1979
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: 10000734, 10000735.