Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 5 to 6, 1998

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$10,000

Crop damage

None recorded

Events

2

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 Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:52 UTC.

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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.

Thunderstorm Wind

Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

• Tornado and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 5, 19982 deaths · 45 injured · $1.3 million · F1 · 25 events
• Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 5, 19981 death · $10,000 · 55 kt wind · 2 events
• Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 5, 19989 injured · $170,000 · F1 · 4 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 5, 1998$1.9 million · 1.75 in hail · 36 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 5, 1998$2.9 million · 70 kt wind · 24 events
• Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 5, 19981 injured · $1.1 million · 74 kt wind · 11 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 5, 1998$304,000 · 62 kt wind · 39 events
• Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 5, 1998$1.5 million · 70 kt wind · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 5, 1998$1.5 million · 80 kt wind · 1 event
• Tornado and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 5, 1998$285,000 · F1 · 3 events
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Washington, June 5 to 28, 1998$505,000 · 0.75 in hail · 6 events
• Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 5, 1998$500,000 · 1 event

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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: 5658141, 5658142.