Tornado, Pinellas
- When
- September 20, 5:15 PM EST to 5:18 PM EST
- Where
- Pinellas County, St Petersburg Beach
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 8 yd
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Coordinates
- 27.730, -82.750
Tornado in Florida, September 20, 1996
A short-lived tornado touched down near the intersection of 64th Avenue and 1st Palm Point where a few trees were downed and vehicle windows were broken. ) and 50th Avenue.
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
- $30,000
- 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 tornado touched down near the intersection of 64th Avenue and 1st Palm Point where a few trees were downed and vehicle windows were broken. The weak tornado moved south and briefly touched down a few more times along State Road 699 and caused minor window and tree damage before it lifted near the intersection of State Road 699 (Gulf Blvd.) and 50th Avenue.
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.
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More
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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: 5571919.