Tornado, Miami-Dade
- When
- August 5, 7:55 AM CST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 25.700, -80.370
Tornado in Florida, August 5, 1983
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
- $250
- 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, August 5, 1983
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, August 5, 1983
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, August 5, 1983
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 5, 1983
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 5, 1983
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 5, 1983
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, August 5, 1983
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, August 5, 1983
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 5, 1983
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 5, 1983
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, August 5, 1983
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 5, 1983
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: 10000956.