Tornado in Florida, June 22, 1997

Name: Tornado in Florida, June 22, 1997
Start: 1997-06-22T13:37
End: 1997-06-22T13:45
Location: Florida

June 22, 1997 · NWS TBW · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $214,000
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.

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1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Lee

When: June 22, 1:37 PM EST to 1:45 PM EST
Where: Lee County, Cape Coral
Rating: F0
Path length: 2.7 mi
Path width: 10 yd
Property damage: $214,000
Coordinates: 26.600, -81.970

A waterspout moved onshore as a tornado near SE 28th Street and SE 24th Place in Cape Coral and moved northwest. The tornado caused minor to moderate roof, carport, lanai, boat, power line and tree damage in the heavily residential area of eastern Cape Coral. A total of 92 residences sustained damage from the tornado. One boat was blown from dry-dock on land into a canal.The tornado moved northwest and crossed Everest Parkway and Del Prado Boulevard before it lifted near the intersection of SE 18th Street and SE 12th Place. Total damage estimated by Lee County Emergency Management and Cape Coral Fire officials was $214,000 dollars.

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.

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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: 5616318.