Tornado, Osceola
- When
- April 30, 10:15 AM EST
- Where
- Osceola County, Holopaw
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Coordinates
- 28.130, -81.070
Tornado in Florida, April 30, 1996
An F0 tornado touched down just south of Highway 192 at the southwest edge of the town of Holopaw. The tornado moved northeast for 2 miles damaging numerous mobile homes and out buildings.
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
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- 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 MLB wrote it up.
An F0 tornado touched down just south of Highway 192 at the southwest edge of the town of Holopaw. The tornado moved northeast for 2 miles damaging numerous mobile homes and out buildings. No one was injured but 5 mobile homes were destroyed and about 40 others were damaged.
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:14 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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- Winter Weather in West Virginia, April 30, 1996
More
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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: 5545875.