Tornado, Putnam
- When
- October 7, 4:14 PM EST to 4:55 PM EST
- Where
- Putnam County, Georgetown to Pomona Park
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 8 mi
- Path width
- 45 yd
- Property damage
- $65,000
- Coordinates
- 29.380, -81.650
Tornado in Florida, October 7, 1996
The tornado was up and down along it's path. One home destroyed, one business with major damage, three homes with major damage, 39 with minor damage, and 20 other buildings had minor damage.
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
- $65,000
- 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 JAX wrote it up.
The tornado was up and down along it's path. One home destroyed, one business with major damage, three homes with major damage, 39 with minor damage, and 20 other buildings had minor damage.
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:12 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 Florida, October 7, 1996
- Tropical Storm in Florida, October 7 to 8, 1996
- Wildfire in California, October 7 to 15, 1996
- Flash Flood in Florida, October 7 to 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in Georgia, October 7 to 8, 1996
- Tropical Storm in North Carolina, October 7 to 8, 1996
- Tornado in Florida, October 7, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, October 7, 1996
- Flash Flood in Florida, October 7 to 8, 1996
- Hail in Texas, October 7, 1996
- Hail in Texas, October 7, 1996
- Hail in Texas, October 7, 1996
More
Every storm in Florida in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1996Warnings in Florida, October 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: 5572973.