Tornado, Walton
- When
- September 17, 1:17 PM CST
- Where
- Walton County, Sandestin
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 30.380, -86.370
Tornado in Florida, September 17, 1996
A waterspout came ashore but caused no 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
- 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 TAE wrote it up.
A waterspout came ashore but caused no damage.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 17, 1996
- Lightning Strike in New Mexico, September 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in Colorado, September 17 to 18, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, September 17, 1996
- Tornado in North Carolina, September 17, 1996
- Strong Wind in New York, September 17 to 18, 1996
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, September 17 to 18, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, September 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, September 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in New Jersey, September 17, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, September 17, 1996
More
Every storm in Florida in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1996Warnings in Florida, September 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: 5564445.