Tornado, Pima
- When
- August 14, 5:10 PM MST to 5:13 PM MST
- Where
- Pima County, 5 mi NW of Tucson
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.280, -111.000
Tornado in Arizona, August 14, 1996
Tornado confirmed near Ina and Thornydale Roads by Pima County Sheriff, Fire Department, and NWS personnel. Tornado was on the ground for just a few minutes in open country causing no damage.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS TWC wrote it up.
Tornado confirmed near Ina and Thornydale Roads by Pima County Sheriff, Fire Department, and NWS personnel. Tornado was on the ground for just a few minutes in open country causing no damage.
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:08 UTC.
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
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- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 14, 1996
- Hail in Wyoming, August 14, 1996
More
Every storm in Arizona in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arizona, 1996Warnings in Arizona, August 1996
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: 5572894.