Tornado, Polk
- When
- July 20, 1:50 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 27.750, -81.980
Tornado in Florida, July 20, 1982
1 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
- $3,000
- 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 South Dakota, July 20, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 20, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 20, 1982
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 20, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 20, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 20, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Delaware, July 20, 1982
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 20, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 20, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 20, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 20, 1982
- Hail in Idaho, July 20, 1982
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: 9999742.