Tornado, Palm Beach
- When
- August 10, 6:55 AM EST
- Where
- Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 26.683, -80.050
A tornado was seen over a small lake.
Tornado in Florida, August 10, 2004
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 10, 1:45 AM EST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 1:45 AM EST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
SOUTH FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 245 AM EDT TUE AUG 10 2004 .DISCUSSION...MODELS VARIFIED QUITE NICELY YESTERDAY IN BRINGING DRIER AIRMASS OVER S FLA. ALTHOUGH HAD A NUMBER OF RAIN GUAGES RECORD RAINFALL, COVERAGE WAS MUCH LESS THAN PAST SEVERAL DAYS. AND MODELS KEEP THIS DRY AIR NEXT 48 HOURS AND BEYOND. THIS ALL IN RESULT TO UPPER/SFC RIDGE BUILDING BACK IN FROM THE ATL. BIG QUESTION NOW IS WHAT WILL TRANSPIRE IN THE EXTENDED. BOTH GFS/MESO-ETA WANT TO DEVELOP A STRONG LOW FROM WHAT IS CURRENTLY T.D. 3 IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN. GFS KEEPS THE SYSTEM MOVING WEST THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN AND AT THE SAME TIME SHOWS NEXT UPSTREAM MID LATITUDE TROUGH DIGGING INTO THE SE U.S. WHICH THEN CURVES THE LOW N INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO AND KEEPS IT TO OUR WEST. DUE TO THIS EXTREME UNCERTAINTY HAVE OPTED NOT TO CHANGE THE EXTENDED AND WAIT FOR FUTURE RUNS TO GET A BETTER FEEL AS TO WHAT MAY HAPPEN BY THE WEEKEND. && .MARINE...GFS HAS WINDS INCREASING SUBSTANTIALLY FROM WHAT IT WAS DEPICTING IN EARLIER RUNS SO WILL WAIT AND SEE ON THIS ONE TOO BEFORE MAKING ANY DRASTIC CHANGES. AT THIS TIME DO NOT REALLY SEE THE GRADIENT INCREASING TO ACCOUNT FOR THESE STRONGER WIND SPEEDS. IT SEEMS TO BE LOOKING AT STRONG LOW DEVELOPING ALONG OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY E OF JAX BUT THIS APPEARS TO BE AN OVERFORECAST SO FOR NOW WILL KEEP SE WINDS AT 10 KNOTS OR LESS THROUGH THE WEEK WHICH LEADS TO NEARLY CALM SEAS. && .FIRE WEATHER...NO CONCERNS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WEST PALM BEACH 90 77 90 78 / 40 20 40 20 FORT LAUDERDALE 90 79 90 79 / 30 10 30 10 MIAMI 91 79 91 79 / 30 10 30 10 NAPLES 91 78 90 77 / 20 10 20 10 && .MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 3:05 AM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 405 AM EDT TUE AUG 10 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA FLZ063-066>075-102200- BROWARD METROPOLITAN-DADE METROPOLITAN-EASTERN COLLIER-GLADES-HENDRY- MAINLAND MONROE-PALM BEACH EASTERN-PALM BEACH WESTERN- WESTERN BROWARD-WESTERN COLLIER-WESTERN DADE- 405 AM EDT TUE AUG 10 2004 .DAY ONE...TODAY ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH A MODERATE RISK OF LIGHTNING... ...HEAT INDICES 100 TO 105 INTERIOR AREAS AWAY FROM COASTS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN AGAIN BE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH FLORIDA. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS, LIGHTNING STRIKES, AND GUSTY WINDS AS HIGH AS 30 MILES AN HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER THUNDER -STORMS. THE MOST CONCENTRATION OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE OVER THE INTERIOR AREAS AROUND LAKE OKEECHOBEE AND WESTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY. HIGH HUMIDITY AND HIGHER TEMPERATURES DUE TO MORE SUNSHINE WILL MEAN THAT HEAT INDICES WILL BE 100 TO 105 IN AREAS AWAY FROM THE IMMEDIATE COASTS. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DETAILED GRAPHICS CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE AT MIAMIWEATHER.INFO. FOR INFORMATION IN SPANISH, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT ELTIEMPOENMIAMI.INFO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:57 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, August 10, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Oklahoma, August 10 to 11, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 10, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 10, 2004
- Lightning Strikes in Maryland, August 10, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 10 to 11, 2004
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in New York, August 10, 2004
- Flash Flood in Georgia, August 10, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 10, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 10, 2004
- Hail in Oklahoma, August 10, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 10, 2004
More
Every storm in Florida in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 2004Warnings in Florida, August 2004
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: 5413342.