Tornado, Sarasota
- When
- March 17, 3:30 AM CST
- Where
- Sarasota County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Deaths
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 45 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25 million
- Coordinates
- 27.080, -82.480
Tornadoes in Florida, March 17, 1985
4 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
- 2
- Injuries
- 46
- Property damage
- $26 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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
4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, De Soto
- When
- March 17, 4:30 AM CST
- Where
- De Soto County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 27.080, -81.970
Tornado, Okeechobee
- When
- March 17, 8:49 AM CST
- Where
- Okeechobee County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 27.230, -80.800
Tornado, Bay
- When
- March 17, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Bay County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 30.250, -85.930
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.
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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: 9999923, 9999924, 9999925, 9999926.