High Wind, Manatee
- When
- November 16, 11:00 AM EST to 1:00 PM EST
- Where
- Manatee forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph)
- Property damage
- $2,000
High Wind in Florida, November 16, 1996
S. Highway 41 in Palmetto.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $2,000
- 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.
Non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph blew down a sign and several small to medium sized trees and limbs on U.S. Highway 41 in Palmetto.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, November 16 to 21, 1996
- Coastal Flood in Texas, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Coastal Flood in Louisiana, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, November 16, 1996
- Blizzard in Minnesota, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, November 16, 1996
- Blizzard in North Dakota, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, November 16, 1996
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, November 16, 1996
- Flooding in Kansas, November 16 to 19, 1996
More
Every storm in Florida in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, November 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: 5580099.