Tornado, Brevard
- When
- August 13, 4:35 PM EST to 4:38 PM EST
- Where
- Brevard County, Patrick Afb
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 28.230, -80.600
Tornado in Florida, August 13, 1996
An F0 waterspout/tornado moving southeast from the Banana River made landfall at Patrick AFB. The tornado damaged the roof of a large boathouse, overturned one car, damaged 10 others.
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
- $100,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MLB wrote it up.
An F0 waterspout/tornado moving southeast from the Banana River made landfall at Patrick AFB. The tornado damaged the roof of a large boathouse, overturned one car, damaged 10 others. It also severely damaged a large garage bay door and blew windows out of area buildings. Six boats on trailers and 3 motor homes were damaged. One motor home was overturned.
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 14 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:36 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
- Flooding in Virginia, August 13 to 15, 1996
- Flooding in Virginia, August 13 to 14, 1996
- Flood in North Carolina, August 13 to 14, 1996
- Flash Flood in Delaware, August 13, 1996
- Strong Wind in Delaware, August 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 13, 1996
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 13, 1996
- Hail in Minnesota, August 13, 1996
- Flash Flood in Delaware, August 13, 1996
- Wildfire in Oregon, August 13 to 31, 1996
- Hail in Minnesota, August 13, 1996
- Hail in Minnesota, August 13, 1996
More
Every storm in Florida in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1996Warnings in Florida, 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: 5564346.