Tornado, Glades
- When
- May 3, 2:30 PM EST to 3:00 PM EST
- Where
- Glades County, Buckhead Ridge
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 26.920, -81.270
Tornado in Florida, May 3, 1997
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 2
- Property damage
- $25,000
- 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.
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:28 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
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, May 3, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 3, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Georgia, May 3, 1997
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 3, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 3, 1997
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 3 to 28, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, May 3, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 3, 1997
- Flash Flood in Alabama, May 3, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 3, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, May 3, 1997
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 3, 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: 5598433.