Tornado in Florida, March 3, 1999

Name: Tornado in Florida, March 3, 1999
Start: 1999-03-03T02:00
End: 1999-03-03T02:15
Location: Florida

March 3, 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: $15,000
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, Okaloosa

When: March 3, 2:00 AM CST to 2:15 AM CST
Where: Okaloosa County, Blackman
Rating: F0
Path length: 7 mi
Path width: 30 yd
Property damage: $15,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 30.920, -86.650

A F0 tornado (winds 40 to 73 mph on the Fujita Scale) moved from west to east, nearly parallel to State Rd. 2 near the Blackman community. The only major structural damage was to a large chicken facility, west of Blackman. A pump house to one home was overturned. Numerous trees in the tornados path were blown down as well as power lines. Most of the time the circulation was aloft as a funnel cloud, but briefly touched down as a tornado about 7 times during its life span.

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: 5692832.