Tornado, Palm Beach
- When
- August 24, 12:20 PM EST
- Where
- Palm Beach County, 20 mi W of West Palm Beach
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 26.680, -80.370
Tornado in Florida, August 24, 1999
A Sheriff's Deputy sighted a brief tornado touchdown near twenty-mile bend.
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
- 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.
A Sheriff's Deputy sighted a brief tornado touchdown near twenty-mile bend.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:19 UTC.
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 Flood and Damaging Winds in New York, August 24, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 24, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Ohio, August 24, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Tennessee, August 24, 1999
- Hail in Mississippi, August 24, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, August 24, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 24, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 24, 1999
- Flood in California, August 24, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 24, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 24, 1999
- Hail in Texas, August 24, 1999
More
Every storm in Florida in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1999Warnings in Florida, August 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: 5716107.