Funnel Cloud, Collier
- When
- July 17, 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Collier County, Golden Gate
- Coordinates
- 26.099, -81.381 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail in Florida, July 17, 1997
a cluster of thunderstorms moved to the north northwest at 15 mph. hail was observed at big corkscrew swamp area.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
a cluster of thunderstorms moved to the north northwest at 15 mph. hail was observed at big corkscrew swamp area.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Collier
- When
- July 17, 6:35 PM EST
- Where
- Collier County, Immokalee
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 26.420, -81.420
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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The same day elsewhere
- Hurricane in Louisiana, July 17 to 18, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 17, 1997
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, July 17 to 18, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, July 17 to 18, 1997
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 17, 1997
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 17, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 17, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arizona, July 17 to 29, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 17, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, July 17, 1997
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 17, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 17, 1997
More
Every storm in Florida in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, July 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: 5602831, 5602832.