Tornado in Florida, March 27, 2000

Name: Tornado in Florida, March 27, 2000
Start: 2000-03-27T10:30
End: 2000-03-27T10:31
Location: Florida

March 27, 2000 · 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: $5,000
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, Lee

When: March 27, 10:30 AM EST to 10:31 AM EST
Where: Lee County, 1 mi S of Boca Grande
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.3 mi
Path width: 10 yd
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 26.733, -82.267

A waterspout was observed to move onshore as a tornado and cross Gulf Boulevard on the southern tip of Gasparilla Island. The tornado passed over South Lake Village and uprooted fifteen trees along South Bayou Drive. The tornado also damaged the garage door of a townhouse on the 700 block of South Bayou Drive before it lifted and dissipated.

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 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Florida, 2000 Warnings in Florida, March 2000

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: 5136475.