Tornado, Broward
- When
- May 29, 3:15 PM EST to 3:17 PM EST
- Where
- Broward County, Ft Lauderdle Hlywd A
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 26.070, -80.150
Tornado in Florida, May 29, 1996
A tornado touched down briefly near SR 441 and 32nd Avenue in Hollywood picking up one car and flipping it onto another. A large sign, two roofs and a fruit stand were also damaged.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $100,000
- 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 MFL wrote it up.
A tornado touched down briefly near SR 441 and 32nd Avenue in Hollywood picking up one car and flipping it onto another. A large sign, two roofs and a fruit stand were also damaged.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:13 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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- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 29, 1996
- Tornado in North Carolina, May 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Utah, May 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 29, 1996
More
Every storm in Florida in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1996Warnings in Florida, May 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: 5562008.