Tornado in Florida, July 13, 1999

Name: Tornado in Florida, July 13, 1999
Start: 1999-07-13T16:20
End: 1999-07-13T16:20
Location: Florida

July 13, 1999 · NWS TBW · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $25,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Hillsborough

When: July 13, 4:20 PM EST
Where: Hillsborough County, 3 mi SE of Ruskin
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.2 mi
Path width: 10 yd
Property damage: $25,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 27.680, -82.400

A tornado briefly touched down over rural south Hillsborough County on the 2900 block of 24th Street, south of 21st Avenue SE. The tornado uprooted one large tree, removed one quarter of a barns metal roof and snapped large branches off two additional trees before it lifted and dissipated.

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, July 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: 5715002.