Tornado, Miami-Dade
- When
- August 8, 12:30 PM EST to 12:40 PM EST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, 3 mi SW of Miami New Tamiami Ar
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Coordinates
- 25.620, -80.470
Tornado in Florida, August 8, 1996
Several small tornados briefly touched down in open fields near SW 152 Avenue and 176 Street in Dade County. Numerous persons videotaped and even chased them.
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 MFL wrote it up.
Several small tornados briefly touched down in open fields near SW 152 Avenue and 176 Street in Dade County. Numerous persons videotaped and even chased them.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 6 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:16 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
- Lightning Strike in New Mexico, August 8, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, August 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, August 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 8, 1996
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 8, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 8, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New York, August 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, August 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, August 8, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, August 8, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New York, August 8, 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: 5560939.