Tornado, Broward
- When
- October 14, 5:30 PM EST
- Where
- Broward County, Plantation
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 26.080, -80.200
Tornado in Florida, October 14, 1999
A brief tornado touched down at the Broward Mall damaging two vehicles and injuring one person.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $20,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
A brief tornado touched down at the Broward Mall damaging two vehicles and injuring one person.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:29 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hurricane in Florida, October 14 to 15, 1999
- Hurricane and Tornadoes in Florida, October 14 to 15, 1999
- Strong Wind in New Jersey, October 14, 1999
- Strong Wind in Massachusetts, October 14, 1999
- Strong Wind in Maine, October 14, 1999
- Strong Wind in New Hampshire, October 14, 1999
- High Wind in Maine, October 14 to 15, 1999
- Strong Wind in New York, October 14, 1999
- Strong Wind in Rhode Island, October 14, 1999
- High Wind in Alaska, October 14, 1999
- Wildfire in Oregon, October 14 to 17, 1999
- Cold in Oregon, October 14 to 15, 1999
More
Every storm in Florida in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1999Warnings in Florida, October 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: 5716959.