Tornadoes · United States · Florida · 1982

F0 tornado, Monroe County, Florida, June 2, 1982

Name: F0 tornado, Monroe County, Florida, June 2, 1982
Start: 1982-06-02T21:00:00.000Z
Location: Monroe County, Florida

This F0 tornado ran 0.4 miles across Monroe County on June 2, 1982, touching down at 5:00 PM EDT and reaching 10 yards wide. It killed nobody, and did $5,000 to $50,000 of property damage.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: F0
Date: June 2, 1982
Touchdown: 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
Path length: 0.4 miles (0.6 km)
Path width: 10 yards (9 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000 to $50,000
County: Monroe County
Touchdown point: 25.020, -80.520
Record number: 563

The surface observations

Homestead Afb (HST), 54 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Temp (°F)	Dew point (°F)	Wind	Pressure (mb)	Weather
19:00 UTC	77	73	140° 6 kt	1013.5	-SHRA FG
20:00 UTC	77	73	200° 6 kt	1012.9	-SHRA FG
21:00 UTC	76	72	240° 3 kt	1012.9	-SHRA FG
22:00 UTC	75	72	310° 3 kt	1013.2	-SHRA FG

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

This ground now

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The other tornadoes of June 2, 1982

5 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 2	4:36 PM MDT	F1	Adams, CO	1.0	100	under $50
June 2	4:45 PM MDT	F1	Adams, CO	0.5	100	under $50
June 2	4:55 PM MDT	F1	Weld, CO	3.0	100	under $50
June 2	7:20 PM CDT	F0	Young, TX	0.3	50	under $50
June 2	9:05 PM CDT	F0	Wise, TX	0.3	50	under $50

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.