Tornado, Miami-Dade
- When
- September 20, 4:10 AM EST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, West Miami
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 25.770, -80.270
Tornado in Florida, September 20, 1999
A brief tornado touched down near southwest 117 Avenue and 7th Street.
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
- 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.
A brief tornado touched down near southwest 117 Avenue and 7th Street.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 23 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:12 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
- Tropical Storm in Florida, September 20 to 21, 1999
- Flash Flood in Florida, September 20 to 22, 1999
- Tropical Storm in Florida, September 20 to 21, 1999
- Tornado in Florida, September 20, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, September 20, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, September 20, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, September 20, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, September 20, 1999
- Coastal Flood in Alabama, September 20 to 21, 1999
- Coastal Flood in Florida, September 20, 1999
- Flood in Puerto Rico, September 20, 1999
- Funnel Cloud in Florida, September 20, 1999
More
Every storm in Florida in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1999Warnings in Florida, September 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: 5716213.