Tornado, Pinellas
- When
- November 8, 12:55 PM EST
- Where
- Pinellas County, 8 mi NNE of Clearwater
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 28.070, -82.750
Tornado in Florida, November 8, 1996
S. Highway 19 and Alderman Road in Palm Harbor.
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
- $5,000
- 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 short lived mini-tornado touched down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 19 and Alderman Road in Palm Harbor. The tornado caused minor roof damage to a restaurant, overturned a 24 foot, 12 ton rental truck on U.S. Highway 19, and downed a few awnings and tree limbs before it receded and dissipated.
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:57 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 Georgia, November 8, 1996
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, November 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, November 8 to 9, 1996
- Tornado in Maryland, November 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, November 8, 1996
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, November 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, November 8 to 9, 1996
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, November 8, 1996
- Tornado in Georgia, November 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, November 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, November 8 to 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, November 8, 1996
More
Every storm in Florida in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1996Warnings 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: 5580096.