Tornado, Miami-Dade
- When
- May 4, 3:20 PM EST to 3:30 PM EST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, 9300 Fountain Blue
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 25.850, -80.120
Tornado in Florida, May 4, 1997
outdoor furniture tossed about.
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
- 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.
outdoor furniture tossed about.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 40 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:19 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 Winds in North Dakota, May 4 to 17, 1997
- High Wind in Alaska, May 4 to 5, 1997
- Flood in North Carolina, May 4, 1997
- Hurricane in Guam, May 4 to 11, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 4, 1997
- High Wind in Montana, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 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: 5598434.