Tornado in Florida, March 13, 1999

Name: Tornado in Florida, March 13, 1999
Start: 1999-03-13T22:45
End: 1999-03-13T22:55
Location: Florida

March 13, 1999 · NWS MOB · 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: $30,000
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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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Santa Rosa

When: March 13, 10:45 PM CST to 10:55 PM CST
Where: Santa Rosa County, Holley
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.1 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Property damage: $30,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 30.450, -86.900

A F0 tornado (winds 40 to 73 mph on the Fujita Scale) with a track of about 150 yards and 50 yards wide, touched down briefly in Holley. The weak tornado twisted several large pine trees which in turn damaged the roof and windows of three homes as they fell. Additional funnel clouds were sighted in the county, but the remainder of storm damage appeared to be from straight lines winds.

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, March 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: 5691537.