Tornado, Miami-Dade
- When
- May 28, 4:45 PM EST to 5:00 PM EST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, 7 mi NW of Opalocka
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Coordinates
- 25.970, -80.350
Tornado in Florida, May 28, 1997
citizens reported tornado over sawgrass area west of i75 nearflorida turnpike. numerous reports of funnel clouds.
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
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
citizens reported tornado over sawgrass area west of i75 nearflorida turnpike. numerous reports of funnel clouds. no damagereported.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 40 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:45 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
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, May 28, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, May 28, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, May 28, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 28, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Louisiana, May 28, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, May 28, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 28, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 28, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, May 28, 1997
- Tornado in New Mexico, May 28, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 28, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 28, 1997
More
Every storm in Florida in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1997Warnings in Florida, May 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: 5598452.