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2005 tornadoes in Florida

56 tornadoes touched down in Florida in 2005, 13 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2004 2006 The whole country in 2005

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 2005

February 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 27	3:45 PM EST	F1	Brevard	3.0	50		1	$600,000

March 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 7	9:15 PM CST	F0	Gulf	0.2	50			$150,000
March 7	9:25 PM CST	F0	Gulf	1.0	50			$70,000

April 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 7	3:40 PM EDT	F1	Marion	8.0	1,000		3

April 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 23	3:55 AM EDT	F0	Lafayette	0.5	75			$120,000
April 23	7:30 PM EDT	F1	Polk	7.0	150			$250,000

April 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 26	5:05 PM CDT	F1	Holmes	1.1	150			$350,000

May 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 3	10:30 PM EDT	F0	Okeechobee	4.0	40

May 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 25	3:15 PM EDT	F0	Saint Lucie	0.4	4			$10,000

May 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 31	11:38 PM EDT	F1	Pasco	1.5	100			$80,000

June 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 11	2:10 PM CDT	F0	Santa Rosa	0.1	50			$3,000

June 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 18	5:19 PM EDT	F0	Palm Beach	0.5	20			$50,000

June 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 21	4:26 PM EDT	F0	Putnam	1.0	0

June 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 22	4:50 PM EDT	F0	Monroe	0.2	30			$10,000

June 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 23	4:28 PM EDT	F0	Pinellas	0.5	40

June 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 30	3:30 PM EDT	F0	Polk	0.5	40

July 6 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 6	6:50 AM CDT	F0	Escambia	1.0	30	$20,000
July 6	7:11 AM CDT	F0	Escambia	0.5	30	$10,000
July 6	10:55 AM CDT	F0	Okaloosa	1.0	30	$10,000

July 9 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 9	5:50 AM EDT	F0	Hardee	1.0	100	$50,000
July 9	6:00 AM EDT	F1	Manatee	0.5	150	$210,000
July 9	6:30 AM EDT	F0	Hillsborough	0.6	40	$40,000
July 9	6:30 AM EDT	F0	Hillsborough	0.3	40
July 9	6:55 AM EDT	F0	Pinellas	0.1	40
July 9	12:00 PM EDT	F0	Hillsborough	0.5	40
July 9	2:40 PM EDT	F0	Citrus	0.7	40
July 9	10:40 PM EDT	F0	Suwannee	1.0	25

July 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 10	5:40 PM EDT	F0	Suwannee	10.0	50

July 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 14	5:36 PM EDT	F0	Palm Beach	0.4	10

July 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 15	7:51 PM EDT	F0	Charlotte	0.2	40

July 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 20	6:05 PM EDT	F0	Pinellas	0.7	75			$440,000

August 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 3	6:42 PM EDT	F0	Alachua	0.1	0

August 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 12	5:56 PM EDT	F0	Polk	0.5	40

August 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 26	4:45 AM EDT	F2	Monroe	1.2	20			$5.0 million

August 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 28	9:30 PM CDT	F0	Okaloosa	0.5	30			$10,000

August 29 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 29	7:05 AM CDT	F0	Santa Rosa	3.0	30	$10,000
August 29	7:07 AM CDT	F0	Escambia	1.0	30	$10,000
August 29	8:42 AM CDT	F0	Okaloosa	1.0	30	$10,000
August 29	8:47 AM CDT	F0	Santa Rosa	1.0	30	$10,000

September 10 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 10	8:59 PM EDT	F0	Miami-Dade	2.0	50
September 10	9:09 PM EDT	F0	Miami-Dade	3.0	50

September 26 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
September 26	1:30 PM CDT	F0	Santa Rosa	0.1	30
September 26	3:41 PM CDT	F0	Santa Rosa	0.1	30
September 26	4:05 PM CDT	F0	Santa Rosa	0.1	30

September 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 27	5:27 PM EDT	F0	Collier	0.5	30

October 23 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 23	5:35 PM EDT	F0	Hardee	0.5	50
October 23	7:37 PM EDT	F0	Polk	1.0	50	$10,000
October 23	9:30 PM EDT	F0	Brevard	3.0	40	$50,000

October 24 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 24	2:30 AM EDT	F1	Collier	5.0	50	$40,000
October 24	6:00 AM EDT	F0	Highlands	1.0	50	$10,000
October 24	7:35 AM EDT	F2	Brevard	0.3	40	$150,000
October 24	7:40 AM EDT	F0	Brevard	0.1	20	$10,000
October 24	7:50 AM EDT	F1	Brevard	0.2	30	$150,000

December 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 5	1:10 PM EST	F1	Wakulla	4.0	100			$1.3 million
December 5	1:40 PM EST	F0	Leon	0.2	30

December 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 24	10:45 PM CST	F0	Bay	2.7	100			$650,000

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.