1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado touched down near the intersection of North 50th Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. The tornado downed nine 75 foot light poles at a commercial auto auction car lot. The poles were sheared six feet above ground level and fell atop several parked vehicles.
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Every storm in Florida in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1997Warnings in Florida, October 1997
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: 5620435.