Tornado, Monroe
- When
- August 24, 10:30 PM EST
- Where
- Monroe County, Long Key
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Coordinates
- 24.830, -80.830
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Tornado in Florida, August 24, 1997
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
The radar
The Key West radar (KBYX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:27 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
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, August 24, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 24, 1997
- Hail in Indiana, August 24, 1997
- Cold in Alabama, August 24, 1997
- Cold in Alabama, August 24, 1997
- Cold in Alabama, August 24, 1997
- High Wind in Washington, August 24, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 24, 1997
- Hail in Illinois, August 24, 1997
- Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, August 24, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, August 24, 1997
- Hail in Illinois, August 24, 1997
More
Every storm in Florida in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1997Warnings in Florida, August 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: 5619096.