Thunderstorm Wind, Miami-Dade
- When
- June 17, 7:00 AM CST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County
- Coordinates
- 25.600, -80.420
Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 1982
10 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 1
- Injuries
- 13
- Property damage
- $1.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 11
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, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Brevard
- When
- June 17, 8:35 AM CST
- Where
- Brevard County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 25.800, -80.120
Tornado, Broward
- When
- June 17, 8:45 AM CST
- Where
- Broward County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 25.980, -80.150
Tornado, Polk
- When
- June 17, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 28.020, -81.720
Tornado, Volusia
- When
- June 17, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Volusia County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 28.850, -81.150
Tornado, Hendry
- When
- June 17, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Hendry County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 26.720, -81.500
Tornado, Glades
- When
- June 17, 8:23 PM CST
- Where
- Glades County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 26.780, -81.480
Tornado, Highlands
- When
- June 17, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Highlands County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 27.070, -82.450
Tornado, Highlands
- When
- June 17, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Highlands County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 9 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 27.420, -81.380
Tornado, Highlands
- When
- June 17, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Highlands County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 27.650, -81.350
Tornado, Volusia
- When
- June 17, 11:20 PM CST
- Where
- Volusia County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.4 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 29.130, -81.050
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, Hendry | 1982-06-17 | Direct |
What these are
- 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.
- 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
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 17, 1982
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 17, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, June 17, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 17, 1982
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, June 17, 1982
- Tornado in South Dakota, June 17, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 17, 1982
- Tornado in Iowa, June 17, 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: 9998660, 9998661, 9998662, 9998663, 9998664, 9998665, 9998666, 9999512, 9999513, 9999723, 9999724.