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1964 tornadoes in Florida

37 tornadoes touched down in Florida in 1964, 25 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

1963 1965 The whole country in 1964

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 mph
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.

Every tornado in Florida in 1964

January 12 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 12	3:30 AM GMT-5	F1	Polk	4.7	20	$500 to $5,000
January 12	4:00 AM GMT-5	F2	Marion	0.1	10	$500 to $5,000
January 12	6:45 AM GMT-5	F1	Duval	0.1	10	under $50
January 12	8:40 AM GMT-5	F0	Volusia	1.0	20	$500 to $5,000

February 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 18	5:00 PM GMT-5	F0	Highlands	0.1	10

March 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 14	5:00 AM GMT-5	F1	Monroe	0.1	10

March 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 20	6:00 AM GMT-5	F1	Pinellas	4.1	10		1	$50,000 to $500,000

April 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 25	3:45 PM GMT-5	F2	Wakulla	0.5	10		2	$50,000 to $500,000

April 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 27	4:30 AM GMT-5	F2	Escambia	0.1	10

April 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 28	1:40 PM GMT-4	F2	Orange	0.1	10			$50,000 to $500,000

May 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 2	3:45 PM GMT-4	F1	Duval	0.1	10

June 6 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 6	11:50 AM GMT-4	F1	Taylor	4.7	150	$500 to $5,000
June 6	1:10 PM GMT-4	F2	Duval	3.6	27	$50,000 to $500,000
June 6	4:00 PM GMT-4	F2	Polk	0.1	10	$5,000 to $50,000

June 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 11	3:30 PM GMT-4	F0	Hillsborough	0.1	10			$500 to $5,000

June 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 23	4:10 PM GMT-4	F2	Lee	0.1	10		1	$500 to $5,000

June 30 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 30	4:00 PM GMT-4	F1	Pasco	0.1	10			$500 to $5,000
June 30	4:00 PM GMT-4	F1	Manatee	0.1	10			$500 to $5,000

July 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 2	2:22 PM GMT-4	F2	Hillsborough	0.1	10		6	$5,000 to $50,000

July 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 31	11:30 AM GMT-5	F0		0.1	10

August 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 13	7:10 PM GMT-5	F0		0.1	10

August 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 16	4:00 PM GMT-4	F0	Alachua	0.1	10

August 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 21	12:15 PM GMT-4	F1	Pinellas	0.1	10		2	$500 to $5,000

August 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 27	8:00 PM GMT-4	F1	Brevard	0.1	10		1	$5,000 to $50,000

August 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 28	3:00 AM GMT-4	F1	Broward	0.1	10			$500 to $5,000
August 28	3:00 AM GMT-4	F0	Volusia	0.1	10

October 14 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
October 14	3:10 PM GMT-5	F1		0.1	67		$500 to $5,000
October 14	4:15 PM GMT-4	F1	Collier	0.1	10		$50 to $500
October 14	5:00 PM GMT-4	F1	Palm Beach	0.1	10	3	$500 to $5,000
October 14	6:00 PM GMT-4	F1	Palm Beach	0.1	10	3	$500 to $5,000
October 14	6:00 PM GMT-4	F2	Martin	0.1	10		$500 to $5,000
October 14	6:24 PM GMT-4	F2	Palm Beach	0.1	100	22	$50,000 to $500,000
October 14	7:00 PM GMT-4	F1	Palm Beach	0.1	10	3	$5,000 to $50,000
October 14	9:20 PM GMT-4	F2	Brevard	0.1	10	17	$50,000 to $500,000
October 14	11:50 PM GMT-4	F2	Broward	0.1	10		$5,000 to $50,000

November 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 19	10:00 PM GMT-6	F1	Escambia	0.3	10			$500 to $5,000

December 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 25	2:30 AM GMT-6	F3	Okaloosa	12.8	67		4	$500,000 to $5 million

Nearby

Every tornado in Florida since 1950 Warnings in force in Florida The live radar over Florida

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.