Tornado, Manatee
- When
- August 23, 4:30 PM EST to 4:35 PM EST
- Where
- Manatee County, 1 mi N of Bradenton
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.8 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 27.500, -82.570
Tornado in Florida, August 23, 1996
A short-lived tornado touched down on the 300th block of 11th Street in Palmetto where it removed the roof off a duplex, shattered a few windows and damaged the lanai of a home. The tornado touched down briefly for a second time and last time on Eighth Avenue in Palmetto and caused no additional damage before it receded and dissipated.
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
- $25,000
- 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 TBW wrote it up.
A short-lived tornado touched down on the 300th block of 11th Street in Palmetto where it removed the roof off a duplex, shattered a few windows and damaged the lanai of a home. The tornado touched down briefly for a second time and last time on Eighth Avenue in Palmetto and caused no additional damage before it receded and dissipated.
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 28 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:32 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
- Flash Flood in Missouri, August 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 23, 1996
- Flood in Florida, August 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New York, August 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in California, August 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, August 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, August 23, 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: 5571901.