Tornado, Polk
- When
- June 29, 5:40 PM EST
- Where
- Polk County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 27.880, -81.830
Tornado in Florida, June 29, 1987
1 tornado, 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
- 1
- 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 Pennsylvania, June 29, 1987
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, June 29, 1987
- Tornado and Hail in Ohio, June 29, 1987
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 29, 1987
- Tornado and Hail in Indiana, June 29, 1987
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 29, 1987
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 29, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, June 29, 1987
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in New Mexico, June 29, 1987
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 29, 1987
- Tornado in Idaho, June 29, 1987
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, June 29, 1987
More
Every storm in Florida in 1987Every state in 1987This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1987Warnings in Florida, June 1987
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: 10000845.