Tornado, Broward
- When
- June 9, 5:00 PM EST to 5:03 PM EST
- Where
- Broward County, 5 mi S of Ft Lauderdle Hlywd A
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Coordinates
- 26.000, -80.150
Tornado in Florida, June 9, 1996
A tornado briefly touched down along Stirling Road between Park Road and 56th Avenue, damaging trees. 4 inches of rain in two hours.
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 MFL wrote it up.
A tornado briefly touched down along Stirling Road between Park Road and 56th Avenue, damaging trees. Street flooding in Fort Lauderdale was caused by up to 6.4 inches of rain in two hours.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 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
- Tornado in Virginia, June 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 9, 1996
- Tornado in Tennessee, June 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, June 9, 1996
- Tornado in Indiana, June 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Virginia, June 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 9, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 9, 1996
- Flood in Indiana, June 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Michigan, June 9 to 10, 1996
- Tornado in Virginia, June 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 9, 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: 5562018.