Tornado, Indian River
- When
- March 31, 8:44 PM EST
- Where
- Indian River County, 8 mi W of Vero Beach
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 27.630, -80.530
Tornado in Florida, March 31, 1996
A small F0 tornado touched down briefly blowing down a few trees along State Road 60 about eight miles west of Vero Beach.
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 MLB wrote it up.
A small F0 tornado touched down briefly blowing down a few trees along State Road 60 about eight miles west of Vero Beach.
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:43 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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- Lightning Strike in Florida, March 31, 1996
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, March 31, 1996
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- Hail in Mississippi, March 31, 1996
- Hail in Mississippi, March 31, 1996
- Hail in Mississippi, March 31, 1996
- Hail in Mississippi, March 31, 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: 5547922.