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2006 tornadoes in Florida

42 tornadoes touched down in Florida in 2006, 15 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2005 2007 The whole country in 2006

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 2006

January 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 2	12:55 PM EST	F0	Liberty	0.2	50			$10,000

January 13 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 13	10:41 AM CST	F0	Okaloosa	4.0	50		13	$2.0 million
January 13	10:56 AM CST	F1	Santa Rosa	0.8	75			$500,000

March 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 23	3:10 PM EST	F0	Broward	1.0	50

April 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 22	5:21 PM EDT	F0	Wakulla	4.0	50			$10,000

June 12 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 12	8:09 AM EDT	F0	Polk	0.5	40
June 12	8:50 AM EDT	F0	Hardee	0.5	40
June 12	2:28 PM EDT	F0	DeSoto	0.5	40
June 12	3:18 PM EDT	F0	DeSoto	4.0	40

June 13 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 13	3:20 AM EDT	F0	Orange	0.1	20	$10,000
June 13	4:00 AM EDT	F0	Duval	1.0	50
June 13	4:30 AM EDT	F0	Duval	0.1	50

June 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 20	2:28 PM EDT	F0	Palm Beach	0.2	50

June 21 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 21	7:17 PM EDT	F2	Charlotte	3.0	70		3	$500,000
June 21	7:27 PM EDT	F0	Charlotte	0.5	30			$30,000

June 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 24	3:13 PM EDT	F0	Polk	0.3	40

July 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 6	2:00 PM EDT	F0	Lake	2.0	40			$70,000

July 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 17	3:36 PM EDT	F0	Manatee	0.3	40

July 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 20	5:58 PM EDT	F0	Pasco	0.3	30

July 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 26	7:18 PM EDT	F1	Putnam	0.5	75

August 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 4	7:10 PM EDT	F1	Union	5.5	100

August 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 11	10:28 AM EDT	F0	Sarasota	0.3	30

August 21 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 21	2:18 PM EDT	F0	Okeechobee	0.5	30
August 21	8:05 PM EDT	F0	Broward	0.1	30

August 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 24	4:00 PM EDT	F0	Martin	0.3	30			$20,000

August 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 25	6:10 PM EDT	F0	Bradford	0.2	30

August 30 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 30	3:38 PM EDT	F0	Osceola	0.2	30
August 30	3:50 PM EDT	F0	Osceola	0.2	30

September 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 7	2:02 PM EDT	F0	Duval	1.0	25

September 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 15	7:24 PM EDT	F0	Polk	0.7	50

October 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 7	7:55 PM EDT	F0	Orange	0.1	30			$70,000

October 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 22	5:26 AM CDT	F0	Bay	0.3	50			$75,000

October 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 27	2:31 PM CDT	F0	Bay	0.8	30			$5,000
October 27	7:10 PM EDT	F1	Franklin	1.6	125			$1.0 million

November 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 7	5:55 PM EST	F0	Orange	0.8	50			$40,000
November 7	6:10 PM EST	F1	Seminole	2.3	100			$1.4 million

November 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 14	12:32 PM EST	F0	Miami-Dade	0.0	20

December 25 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
December 25	8:06 AM EST	F2	Columbia	2.7	300	1
December 25	11:20 AM EST	F2	Pasco	0.8	100	2	$3.5 million
December 25	12:20 PM EST	F0	Lake	0.3	50		$250,000
December 25	1:22 PM EST	F2	Volusia	2.8	50	5	$2.5 million
December 25	1:40 PM EST	F2	Volusia	2.7	80	6	$50 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.