Tornado in Florida, July 15, 1999

Name: Tornado in Florida, July 15, 1999
Start: 1999-07-15T17:15
End: 1999-07-15T17:15
Location: Florida

July 15, 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: $100,000
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.

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1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Pinellas

When: July 15, 5:15 PM EST
Where: Pinellas County, Largo to 2 mi NE of Largo
Rating: F0
Path length: 1.9 mi
Path width: 5 yd
Property damage: $100,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 27.900, -82.780

National Weather Service damage survey concluded that a F0 tornado (gustnado) along the leading edge of a thunderstorm, sporadically touched down along a narrow path and caused minor roof, lanai, carport and window damage to at least sixteen mobile homes in Largo.The weak tornado first touched down in the Four Seasons Mobile Home Park along State Road 688 (Ulmerton Road) east of Alternate U.S. Highway 19. The tornado moved north northwest and touched down briefly in the Oak Crest, Buckeye and Lincolnshire Mobile Home Parks where most of the residential damage occurred.Eyewitnesses watched the tornado briefly touch down and topple a few trees near the intersection of 7th Street SE and 5th Avenue SE along Lake Alison. The tornado continued north northwest over a mixed commercial, residential and wooded area of Largo and caused minor sign and tree branch damage before it lifted near the intersection of 4th Avenue NE and 4th Street NE.

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

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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: 5715172.