Funnel Cloud, Collier
- When
- July 3, 4:05 PM EST
- Where
- Collier County, North Naples
- Coordinates
- 26.099, -81.381 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
by collier county sheriffs office...no touchdown observed.
Hail in Florida, July 3, 1997
a slow moving thunderstorm complex moved from near immokalee to the north naples area between 330 and 430 pm est.
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
- 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 slow moving thunderstorm complex moved from near immokalee to the north naples area between 330 and 430 pm est.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:21 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Collier
- When
- July 3, 4:25 PM EST
- Where
- Collier County, North Naples
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 26.230, -81.800
golf ball size hail observed by corkscrew fire dept near everglades and immokalee rd.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in New York, July 3, 1997
- Tornadoes and Hail in Massachusetts, July 3, 1997
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, July 3, 1997
- Heat in Florida, July 3, 1997
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Kansas, July 3 to 21, 1997
- Hail in Missouri, July 3, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 3, 1997
- Tornado in Massachusetts, July 3, 1997
- Tornado in Massachusetts, July 3, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 3, 1997
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 3, 1997
- Hail in Missouri, July 3, 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: 5602549, 5602550.