Tornado in Florida, June 29, 2003

Name: Tornado in Florida, June 29, 2003
Start: 2003-06-29T17:52
End: 2003-06-29T17:57
Location: Florida

June 29, 2003 · 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: $40,000
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 forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 29, 1:00 PM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 1:00 PM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes before

WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
200 PM EDT SUN JUN 29 2003

CURRENT/SHORT TERM(TONIGHT-TUE)...... CIRRUS/MID CLOUDS EXTEND FROM
TAMPA BAY NORTH. TO THE SOUTH A FIELD OF CU. TEMPERATURES AROUND 90
IN PLACES AND EXPECT CONTINUED INCREASE FOR A COUPLE MORE HOURS.
GRADIENT WINDS AROUND 15 MPH AND THIS KEEP THE WEST COAST SEABREEZE
LATE TO DEVELOP OR MAY JUST HAVE A WIND SLOW DOWN NEAR THE COAST
LATE ESPECIALLY IN AREAS TO NORTH WHERE HEATING IS LESS. STILL
EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE WEST COAST DEVELOPING LATE THIS
AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG ESPECIALLY THOSE
DEVELOPING NEAR BOUNDARY INTERSECTIONS. MONDAY AND TUESDAY A SURFACE
RIDGE TO THE NORTH WITH A SOUTHEAST FLOW WILL PROVIDE MOSTLY SUNNY
SKIES IN THE MORNING WITH SCATTERED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS.

EXTENDED (WED-SAT)...AS HEIGHTS ALOFT BEGIN TO SLOWLY FALL...THE
SURFACE RIDGE WILL MOVE TO THE SOUTHERN FA MID WEEK...THEN INTO THE
STRAITS BY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.THIS WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED
CONVECTION EACH DAY. CONVECTION WILL START ALONG THE NORTH COAST IN
THE MORNING AND GRADUALLY MOVE INLAND AND SOUTH DURING THE AFTERNOON.
BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN MAY BE SATURDAY AS SURFACE TROF TRIES TO SLIDE
SOUTH INTO THE FA.

MARINE...NO CHANGES WITH SE GRADIENT WIND 10 TO 15 KT. MODERATE SE
FLOW TO CONTINUE SUN THEN TAPER OFF MON THRU THE WEEK.

FIRE WEATHER...  NO CONCERNS.

CCFTBW
TPA BB 076/091 076/091 076 03444
FMY BB 075/091 074/091 074 03444
GIF BB 074/092 073/092 074 03242
SRQ BB 076/090 074/090 074 03444
BKV BB 072/091 073/091 071 03444

.TBW...NONE.

CP/FA

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 4:30 AM EST, 13 hours 22 minutes before

FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-291400-

WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL FL
530 AM EDT SUN JUN 29 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST
FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY:

A WARM...MOIST...AND UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA
TO GENERATE POTENTIALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALREADY MOVING INTO THE THE AREA THIS MORNING.
WITH DAYTIME HEATING...THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN
COVERAGE BY THIS AFTERNOON. STORM MOVEMENT WILL BE NORTHWARD THROUGH
THE DAY. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...
DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY:

THE BERMUDA HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE WILL REMAIN ESTABLISHED OVER THE
FLORIDA PENINSULA FOR MORE TYPICAL MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT EACH DAY.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.

RD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 29, 2:32 PM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN  FL
332 PM EDT SUN JUN 29 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0653 PM    2 NW DADE CITY            FL   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/03   PASCO                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN FROM
                                          POSSIBLE TONADO. REPORTED
                                          BY STORM SPOTTER.

RKR

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:43 PM EST, 9 minutes before

FLZ043-048-049-052-292315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
643 PM EDT SUN JUN 29 2003

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RACING THROUGH THE LOWER GREEN SWAMP...
THUNDERSTORMS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH...WILL AFFECT THE GREEN
SWAMP...DADE CITY...LACOOCHEE AND RIDGE MANOR...UNTIL 715 PM
EDT. GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH WILL OCCUR. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...CROUCH DOWN IN A LOW
SPOT...AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS.

GOLDSMITH

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Pasco

When: June 29, 5:52 PM EST to 5:57 PM EST
Where: Pasco County, 1 mi SE of Dade City
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.7 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Property damage: $40,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 28.367, -82.183

A tornado passed through Dade City and damaged mostly trees and power lines over an area 12 blocks long and one block wide, basically along Coleman Street between 7th Ave and 17th Ave. The tornado wind estimate was 70 mph. Damage to four homes and three cars were a result of trees falling on them. Many trees were pushed over by the tornado but most of these trees had signs of rot and the ground was saturated. The local utility reported 2,700 people without power after the event. Damage was estimated at $40,000 but cleanup costs was estimated at $60,000.

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 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Florida, 2003 Warnings in Florida, June 2003

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: 5366847.