Tornado, Marion
- When
- July 6, 2:30 PM EST to 2:40 PM EST
- Where
- Marion County, Ocala Arpt to 10 mi W of Ocala Arpt
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 29.170, -82.380
Tornado in Florida, July 6, 1996
Tornado moved through a mobile home subdivision. Tornado destroyed two, and dammaged three mobile homes.
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
- $50,000
- 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 JAX wrote it up.
Tornado moved through a mobile home subdivision. Vortex was mostly at rooftop level, sufficient to destroy roofs, uproot trees and produced considerable twisting and snapping of large tree limbs.Tornado destroyed two, and dammaged three mobile homes.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
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- Flash Flood in Minnesota, July 6, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 6, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 6, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 6, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 6, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 6, 1996
- Heat in Alaska, July 6, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5557486.