Tornado in Florida, January 2, 1999

Name: Tornado in Florida, January 2, 1999
Start: 1999-01-02T05:30
End: 1999-01-02T05:36
Location: Florida

January 2, 1999 · NWS MFL · 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: $5.9 million
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 Miami radar (KAMX), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:30 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Palm Beach

When: January 2, 5:30 AM EST to 5:36 AM EST
Where: Palm Beach County, Riviera Beach
Rating: F1
Path length: 3.2 mi
Path width: 30 yd
Property damage: $5.9 million
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 26.770, -80.050

A tornado touched down just east of I-95 and north of Blue Heron Blvd. and travelled toward the east southeast for more than three miles before dissipating over the intracoastal waterway near the Port of Palm Beach. A total of 460 buildings suffered damage, including portable classrooms at JFK Middle School. A four block section around 5th Avenue North was hardest hit. In addition, cargo containers at the Port of Palm Beach were ripped open, a tractor trail was overturned, a concrete utility pole was snapped off and more than 13000 electrical customers lost power.

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: 5679250.