Florida, 1997Tornado and Flash Flood in Florida, December 27, 1997
December 27, 1997 · NWS MLB · 2 events in 1 county or zone
1 tornado, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1.9 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Tornado, Osceola
- When
- December 27, 4:45 AM EST
- Where
- Osceola County, 5 mi SW of St Cloud
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.4 mi
- Path width
- 80 yd
- Property damage
- $1.5 million
- Coordinates
- 28.200, -81.330
A weak F1 tornado moving northeast over Lake Tohopekaliga touched down in the Kissimmee Park community southwest of St. Cloud. The tornado destroyed 4 mobile homes and damaged 10 other structures.
Flash Flood, Osceola
- When
- December 27, 12:00 PM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Osceola County, St Cloud
- Property damage
- $400,000
- Coordinates
- 28.063, -81.149 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy rains that followed a month of wet weather produced flash flooding in a mobile home park in St. Cloud. Seventeen mobile homes were flooded.
- 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.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Tornado in Florida, December 27, 199718 injured · $6.0 million · F2 · 1 event
- Cold in New Mexico, December 27, 19971 death · 1 event
- Flood in Florida, December 27 to 31, 1997$600,000 · 1 event
- Flood in Florida, December 27 to 30, 1997$500,000 · 1 event
- Flood in Florida, December 27, 1997$400,000 · 1 event
- Flood in Florida, December 27 to 31, 1997$250,000 · 1 event
- Tornado in Florida, December 27, 1997$200,000 · F0 · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Texas, December 27, 1997$80,000 · 1 event
- Flood in Florida, December 27 to 31, 1997$40,000 · 1 event
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in South Dakota, December 27 to 28, 199721 events
- Damaging Wind in Florida, December 27, 1997$20,000 · 1 event
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in North Carolina, December 27, 199715 events
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: 5626334, 5626335.