Tornado in Florida, January 2, 1999

Name: Tornado in Florida, January 2, 1999
Start: 1999-01-02T23:22
End: 1999-01-02T23:25
Location: Florida

January 2, 1999 · 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: 1
Property damage: $150,000
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), 20 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:15 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Hillsborough

When: January 2, 11:22 PM EST to 11:25 PM EST
Where: Hillsborough County, 9 mi SE of Tampa
Rating: F1
Path length: 2.3 mi
Path width: 10 yd
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $150,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 27.880, -82.370

A National Weather Service damage survey concluded that a tornado initially touched down along North Street, one half mile south of Symmes Road in Gibsonton, or about nine miles southeast of downtown Tampa. The tornado moved northeast and sporadically touched down across semi-rural, treeless terrain where it damaged several plastic covered fish hatchery quonsets in Gibsonton.The tornado lifted and touched down along Fern Hill Drive, one half mile south of Gibsonton Drive, where it caused F1 damage to two weathered single wide mobile homes and F0 damage to three weathered single wide mobile homes, downed a few trees and snapped several large branches, before it lifted and dissipated along Cone Grove Road. One person in a mobile home suffered minor injuries from wind blown debris.

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 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Florida, 1999 Warnings in Florida, January 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: 5683994.