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March 1980 Pompano Beach tornadoes
Tornadoes
confirmed		2[1]
Max. rating1F3 tornado
Fatalities1 fatality, 33 injuries
Damage$27.5 million (1980 USD)[2]
Areas affectedSoutheast Florida

1Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale

Two destructive tornadoes struck north of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on the night of Saturday, March 1, 1980 (ET). The tornadoes produced extensive damage to apartment complexes, businesses, school buildings, and homes. The first of the two tornadoes touched down south of the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport and tracked northeast for almost 8 miles (13 km) to near the Pompano Beach Pier and moved offshore into the Atlantic Ocean. The tornado, unusually large and powerful for a tornado in South Florida, produced F3 damage, 33 injuries, and one death. A second, smaller, and weaker tornado produced F1 damage just 5 mi (8.0 km) to the north, in Deerfield Beach.

Meteorological synopsis[edit]

Confirmed tornadoes[edit]

Confirmed tornadoes by Fujita rating
FU F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 Total
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2

March 1 event[edit]

List of confirmed tornadoes – Saturday, March 1, 1980[nb 1][nb 2]
F# Location County / Parish State Start
coord. 		Time (UTC) Path length Max. width Summary Refs.
F3 NW of Wilton Manors to Pompano Beach Broward FL 02:00–? 7.8 miles (12.6 km) 500 yards (460 m) 1 death – See section on this tornado – A total of 33 people were injured.
F1 Deerfield Beach Broward FL 02:15–? .5 miles (0.80 km) 33 yards (30 m)

Oakland Park–Pompano Beach, Florida[edit]

Oakland Park–Pompano Beach, Florida
F3 tornado
Max. rating1F3 tornado
Fatalities1 fatality, 33 injuries
1Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale

The first of two tornadoes touched down in Northern Fort Lauderdale, just south of the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, but either this or a separate tornado may have developed farther south, closer to Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport.[4][5]

Non-tornadic effects[edit]

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Oddities/records[edit]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ All dates are based on the local time zone where the tornado touched down; however, all times are in Coordinated Universal Time and dates are split at midnight CST/CDT for consistency.
  2. ^ Prior to 1994, only the average widths of tornado paths were officially listed.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "March 1, 1980 Tornadoes". Tornado History Project. Storm Prediction Center. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Tornado Summaries". National Weather Service. National Center for Environmental Information. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  3. ^ Brooks, Harold E. (April 2004). "On the Relationship of Tornado Path Length and Width to Intensity". Weather and Forecasting. 19 (2). Boston: American Meteorological Society: 310. doi:10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0310:OTROTP>2.0.CO;2. Retrieved 11 September 2019.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
  4. ^ Kirchoff, Glenn (March 2, 1980). "Twisters hit Broward". Fort Lauderdale News. Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  5. ^ "Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena". Storm Data. 22 (3). Asheville, North Carolina: United States Department of Commerce: 3. 1980.
  6. ^ "Non-tornadic Impacts". National Weather Service. National Center for Environmental Information. Retrieved 19 August 2020.

Category:F3 tornadoes Category:Tornadoes of 1980 Category:Tornadoes in Florida Category:1980 in Florida

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