Tornado, Hernando
- When
- March 30, 4:25 PM EST to 4:45 PM EST
- Where
- Hernando County, Brooksville to 2 mi NNE of Brooksville
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 7.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Coordinates
- 28.550, -82.420
Tornado in Florida, March 30, 1996
S. Highway 98 and Cobb Road where it downed power lines and sparked a fire.
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
- $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.
A weak tornado briefly touched down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 98 and Cobb Road where it downed power lines and sparked a fire. The tornado moved northeast and briefly touched down near the intersection of County Road 485 and Centralia Road where it downed a few large trees and several large branches. The last touchdown occurred near Lake Lindsey along County Road 476 where a few large branches were downed before it lifted and dissipated.
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:27 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
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- Hail in Florida, March 30, 1996
More
Every storm in Florida in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1996Warnings in Florida, March 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: 5571966.