Tornado, Hillsborough
- When
- October 7, 1:45 PM EST to 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Hillsborough County, Plant City to 2 mi NNE of Plant City
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 11 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Coordinates
- 27.980, -82.120
Tornado in Florida, October 7, 1996
A fast moving mini-tornado, associated with Tropical Storm Josephine, touched down sporatically along a narrow 11 mile wide path in northeast Hillsborough county. Residents south of Plant City observed a brief touchdown in a semi-wooded area with no apparent damage.
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 TBW wrote it up.
A fast moving mini-tornado, associated with Tropical Storm Josephine, touched down sporatically along a narrow 11 mile wide path in northeast Hillsborough county. Residents south of Plant City observed a brief touchdown in a semi-wooded area with no apparent damage. The last observed touchdown occurred south of the rural Hillsborough/Polk county border near the town of Kathleen.
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:46 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.
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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
- 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
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5580085.