Tornado, Pasco
- When
- September 22, 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Pasco County, New Port Richey
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 28.250, -82.720
Tornado in Florida, September 22, 1996
S. Highway 19 and State Road 54 before it lifted and dissipated.
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
- $10,000
- 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 briefly and severely damaged a roof in the Colonial Hills subdivision near the intersection of U.S. Highway 19 and State Road 54 before it lifted and dissipated. A few power lines and small trees were also downed by the tornado before it dissipated.
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
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: 5568808.