High Wind, Manatee
- When
- February 16, 8:23 PM EST to 9:30 PM EST
- Where
- Manatee forecast zone
- Measured
- 45 kt (52 mph)
- Property damage
- $20,000
High Wind in Florida, February 16, 1996
Gradient winds of 40 to 50 mph tore off the roof of a mobile home in Bradenton and downed a few power lines on the barrier islands. A Kash-n-Karry grocery store in Bradenton suffered metal siding damage to it's roof on Manatee Avenue West.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $20,000
- 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.
Gradient winds of 40 to 50 mph tore off the roof of a mobile home in Bradenton and downed a few power lines on the barrier islands. A Kash-n-Karry grocery store in Bradenton suffered metal siding damage to it's roof on Manatee Avenue West.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in Alabama, February 16, 1996
- Winter Storm in Vermont, February 16 to 17, 1996
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, February 16, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, February 16 to 17, 1996
- Winter Storm in Virginia, February 16 to 17, 1996
- Heavy Snow in New Jersey, February 16 to 17, 1996
- Winter Storm in Virginia, February 16 to 17, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Virginia, February 16, 1996
- Heavy Snow in New York, February 16 to 17, 1996
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, February 16, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Maryland, February 16, 1996
- Winter Storm in North Carolina, February 16 to 17, 1996
More
Every storm in Florida in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, February 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: 5574179.