Funnel Cloud, Palm Beach
- When
- April 2, 4:30 PM EST
- Where
- Palm Beach County, 10 mi W of Boca Raton
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 26.648, -80.436 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Florida, April 2, 1999
Several funnel clouds were sighted over the southern portion of the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.
Where it happened
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- 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.
Several funnel clouds were sighted over the southern portion of the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:28 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
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The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 2 to 8, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, April 2 to 3, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 2 to 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 2 to 13, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 2, 1999
- Hail in Missouri, April 2, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 2, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 2 to 3, 1999
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, April 2 to 3, 1999
- Hail in Texas, April 2 to 3, 1999
- High Wind in Alaska, April 2, 1999
- Hail in Iowa, April 2, 1999
More
Every storm in Florida in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, April 1999
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: 5688895.