Tornado, Lee
- When
- July 10, 4:22 PM EST to 4:30 PM EST
- Where
- Lee County, 7 mi SW of Ft Myers
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.4 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Coordinates
- 26.570, -81.930
Tornado in Florida, July 10, 1996
A short-lived and weak tornado touched down a few times along a narrow path in Ft. Myers.
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
- 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 TBW wrote it up.
A short-lived and weak tornado touched down a few times along a narrow path in Ft. Myers. Damage was minimal and confined to broken tree branches and a few small trees downed along the tornado path.
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:19 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
- Hurricane in Florida, July 10 to 13, 1996
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- Damaging Wind in Nevada, July 10, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 10, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 10, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, July 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 10, 1996
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 10, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, July 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, July 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, July 10, 1996
More
Every storm in Florida in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1996Warnings in Florida, July 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5571041.