Waterspout, Miami-Dade
- When
- June 27, 8:04 AM EST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, 4 mi SE of Key Biscayne
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 25.609, -80.499 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Waterspout in Florida, June 27, 1999
An off-duty NWS employee sighted a waterspout in the Atlantic four miles southeast of Key Biscayne.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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.
An off-duty NWS employee sighted a waterspout in the Atlantic four miles southeast of Key Biscayne.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail in Nebraska, June 27, 1999
- Flooding in Missouri, June 27 to 30, 1999
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Nebraska, June 27, 1999
- Heat in Pennsylvania, June 27, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, June 27, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Kansas, June 27 to 28, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 27, 1999
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Missouri, June 27 to 28, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 27 to 28, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, June 27, 1999
- Flooding in Iowa, June 27 to 29, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, June 27, 1999
More
Every storm in Florida in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, June 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: 5702089.