Funnel Cloud, Miami-Dade
- When
- August 21, 7:15 AM EST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, Biscayne Park
- Coordinates
- 25.609, -80.499 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
sighted near elliot key.
Funnel Cloud in Florida, August 21, 1997
1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 9 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:16 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, August 21, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Ohio, August 21, 1997
- Hail in Nebraska, August 21, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 21, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, August 21 to 22, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 21, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, August 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 21, 1997
- Tornado in Colorado, August 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 21, 1997
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: 5619002.