Tornado, Pasco
- When
- February 8, 7:35 AM EST
- Where
- Pasco County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 28.370, -82.700
Tornadoes and Hail in Florida, February 8, 1986
5 hail, 4 tornado, 2 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 5
- Property damage
- $303,000
- 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
5 hail, 4 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Duval
- When
- February 8, 7:00 AM CST
- Where
- Duval County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.330, -81.680
Thunderstorm Wind, Hernando
- When
- February 8, 7:45 AM CST
- Where
- Hernando County
- Coordinates
- 28.550, -82.430
Hail, Lake
- When
- February 8, 8:30 AM CST
- Where
- Lake County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 28.730, -81.730
Hail, Marion
- When
- February 8, 8:45 AM CST
- Where
- Marion County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 29.200, -82.080
Tornado, Volusia
- When
- February 8, 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Volusia County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 29.170, -81.530
Hail, Lake
- When
- February 8, 10:30 AM CST
- Where
- Lake County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 28.800, -81.870
Hail, Marion
- When
- February 8, 10:45 AM CST
- Where
- Marion County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 29.200, -82.080
Thunderstorm Wind, Pinellas
- When
- February 8, 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- Pinellas County
- Coordinates
- 27.950, -82.750
Tornado, Manatee
- When
- February 8, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Manatee County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 27.480, -82.570
Tornado, Polk
- When
- February 8, 12:45 PM EST
- Where
- Polk County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 27.880, -81.830
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
More
Every storm in Florida in 1986Every state in 1986This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1986Warnings in Florida, February 1986
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: 10001038, 10001037, 10001039, 10001040, 10001041, 10001042, 10001043, 10001044, 10001045, 10001046, 10001047.