Tornado, Collier
- When
- April 14, 2:05 PM EST to 2:35 PM EST
- Where
- Collier County, Pelican Marsh to Corkscrew Swamp
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Coordinates
- 26.250, -81.770
Tornado in Florida, April 14, 1997
TORNADO MAY HAVE BEEN A WATERSPOUT THAT MOVED ONSHORE. 11 WEST.
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
- $200,000
- 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 MFL wrote it up.
TORNADO MAY HAVE BEEN A WATERSPOUT THAT MOVED ONSHORE. AT 1405 PM COLLIER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND.INITIAL TOUCHDOWN 26.15.29 NORTH AND 81.46.11 WEST. THREE EYEWITNESSES REPORTED SEEING A ROTATING FUNNEL WHILE OTHERS, SOME WITHIN A COUPLE HUNDRED FEET, REPORTED NO FUNNEL BUT A WALL OF WIND STRIKING THEIR HOMES. TORNADO AND WIND DAMAGE FROM VICTORIA PARK TO PELICAN STRAND IN NORTH NAPLES. AT VICTORIA PARK DAMAGE WAS 100YARDS WIDE IN A TWISTED DAMAGE PATTERN. AT FOUR SEASONS DAMAGE PATTERN WAS 300 YARDS WIDE MOSTLY IN A NORTHEAST DIRECTION.COLLIER COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS SAID 22 STRUCTURESRECIEVED MINOR DAMAGE. REGENT PARK...7 STRUCTURES...ROOF SHINGLESMISSING, TREES DOWN. BOCA PALMS...3 STRUCTURES...SCREEN DAMAGE.VICTORIA PARK...1 STRUCTURE...MINOR ROOF DAMAGE. FOUR SEASONS...4 SCREENED LANAIS...1 STORAGE SHED. PELICAN MARSH...LANDSCAPE DAMAGE. CRESCENT LAKES...2 MINOR ROOF DAMAGE...4 COLLAPSED SCREENENCLOSURES. AT 1414 PM SHERIFFS AGAIN REPORTED THE TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR IMMOKALEE ROAD AND I75. TORNADO LAST SEEN AT 1435 PMOVER CORKSCREW SWAMP.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 153 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:02 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
More
Every storm in Florida in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1997Warnings in Florida, April 1997
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: 5591844.