Tornado in Florida, March 14, 1999

Name: Tornado in Florida, March 14, 1999
Start: 1999-03-14T14:15
End: 1999-03-14T14:16
Location: Florida

March 14, 1999 · NWS TBW · 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: $50,000
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, Charlotte

When: March 14, 2:15 PM EST to 2:16 PM EST
Where: Charlotte County, Port Charlotte to 14 mi WSW of Port Charlotte
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.6 mi
Path width: 10 yd
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 26.880, -82.320

A short lived tornado touched down in the Lemon Bay Isles Mobile Home Park along State Road 776 and Blue Heron Road and caused minor roof, screen and carport damage to 18 mobile homes along a narrow southwest to northeast path. The tornado lifted and dissipated between Tern Drive and Marcia in the Lemon Bay Isles Mobile Home Park.

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: 5690343.