Tornado in Florida, January 23, 1998

Name: Tornado in Florida, January 23, 1998
Start: 1998-01-23T09:25
End: 1998-01-23T09:30
Location: Florida

January 23, 1998 · NWS TBW · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $75,000
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), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:24 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Hillsborough

When: January 23, 9:25 AM EST to 9:30 AM EST
Where: Hillsborough County, Tampa to 6 mi N of Tampa
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.9 mi
Path width: 10 yd
Property damage: $75,000
Coordinates: 28.070, -82.470

A tornado sporatically touched down along a nearly one mile path from Linebaugh Avenue and 18th Street N. northeast across 22nd Street N. and lifted at 112 Avenue and 27th Street N. The tornado caused moderate shingle damage to three homes and caused minor damage to 22 additional homes.The tornado caused minor siding damage to portable classrooms at the Belle Witter Elementary school at the intersections of 109th Avenue and 22nd Street N. Several trees, power poles and lines were downed before the tornado lifted and dissipated.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Florida in 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Florida, 1998 Warnings in Florida, January 1998

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: 5634436.