10 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:47 UTC.
10 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado briefly touched down in Fort Walton Beach blowing down some trees and causing some minor roof damage to two homes.
A tornado briefly touched down in Navarre blowing some trees down.
A tornado briefly touched down on Navarre Beach from a thunderstorm moving from the Gulf of Mexico. The tornado touched down briefly and blew some shingles from a couple of homes.
A tornado briefly touched down near Molino blowing some trees and power lines down.
A tornado touched down just south of Highway 90 west of Ponce DeLeon and intermittently tracked to Leonia. Two buildings were damaged along with trees and power lines down near Ponce DeLeon and 200-300 pine trees were downed near Leonia.
A tornado touched down near Interstate 10 east of Crestview. The tornado then moved northwest across Okaloosa Lane and then across U.S. Highway 90 before dissipating near Highway 85. The tornado destroyed two homes and a church and severely damaged the late Bob Sikes Homestead and the Crestview High School's gymnasium. The two homes that were destroyed were along Okaloosa Lane. One home was on blocks on a concrete foundation, the home was completely destroyed and an elderly female who lived there was killed. The other home had the roof taken off and most of the insides of the home were destroyed. Three people were injured in this home and were saved when the wind blew them to the floor. The tornado was on the ground for almost two miles. F76PH
A tornado briefly touched down destroying a mobile home and shed.
A tornado was reported by Jackson County Sheriff's Department.
A 79 mph wind gust was measured by a tide monitor in Englewood.
A 67 mph wind gust was measured by a tide monitor.
A tornado briefly touched down as Opal moved ashore causing damage east of the center in the Fort Walton Beach area. Several trees and power lines were blown down.
Numerous power lines and large tree branches were downed by thunderstorm winds.
A thundersquall moved through the Naples area with wind gusts near 60 mph.
Several Trees and power lines were blown down and four homes had shingles blown off in the north parts of Santa Rosa and Okaloosa Counties around the center of Opal. Several brief touchdowns of tornados were observed in McLellan in Santa Rosa County and near Blackman and Oak Grove in Okaloosa County.
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, Okaloosa | 1995-10-04 | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 1995Every state in 1995This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1995Warnings in Florida, October 1995
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: 10319631, 10319773, 10319774, 10317784, 10320026, 10319632, 10319504, 10320105, 10319875, 10319876, 10319633, 10319841, 10317706, 10319796.