Tornado, Putnam
- When
- June 14, 4:00 PM EST to 4:10 PM EST
- Where
- Putnam County, Palatka to 1 mi E of Palatka
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 29.630, -81.620
Tornado in Florida, June 14, 1996
A waterspout/tornado damaged the Mulholland Boat House as it came ashore on the Westbank of the St. Johns River.
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
- $10,000
- 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.
A waterspout/tornado damaged the Mulholland Boat House as it came ashore on the Westbank of the St. Johns River.
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:02 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 North Carolina, June 14, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 14, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 14, 1996
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, June 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 14, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 14, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 14, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, June 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 14, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 14, 1996
More
Every storm in Florida in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1996Warnings in Florida, June 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: 5553272.