Tornado, Palm Beach
- When
- September 6, 4:10 PM EST
- Where
- Palm Beach County, Boca Raton
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 26.350, -80.080
Tornado in Florida, September 6, 1999
S. 441 causing no damage.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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 tornado, that was photographed by a newspaper, touched down near Yamato Road and U.S. 441 causing no damage.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:11 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
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Ohio, September 6, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Florida, September 6, 1999
- Flood in Florida, September 6, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, September 6, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, September 6, 1999
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 6 to 7, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, September 6, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Michigan, September 6, 1999
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 6 to 7, 1999
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, September 6, 1999
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 6 to 7, 1999
- Tornado and Waterspouts in Florida, September 6, 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: 5716197.