Tornado, Gulf
- When
- November 13, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gulf County, Highland View
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 29.830, -85.320
Tornado in Florida, November 13, 1997
A waterspout moved ashore causing minimal damage to a convenience store and a few mobile homes.
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
- $5,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS TAE wrote it up.
A waterspout moved ashore causing minimal damage to a convenience store and a few mobile homes.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flash Flooding in Florida, November 13, 1997
- Flooding in Florida, November 13, 1997
- Flooding in Florida, November 13, 1997
- Flooding in Florida, November 13, 1997
- Tornado in Florida, November 13, 1997
- Ice Storm in Pennsylvania, November 13 to 14, 1997
- Winter Storm in Illinois, November 13 to 14, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, November 13 to 14, 1997
- Winter Storm in Indiana, November 13 to 14, 1997
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, November 13 to 14, 1997
- Winter Weather in New York, November 13 to 14, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Minnesota, November 13, 1997
More
Every storm in Florida in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1997Warnings in Florida, November 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: 5620308.