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2009 tornadoes in Florida

37 tornadoes touched down in Florida in 2009, 25 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2008 2010 The whole country in 2009

The rating scale

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

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 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.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 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 2009

March 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 27	6:37 AM CDT	EF0	Walton	0.2	50
March 27	8:20 AM CDT	EF0	Jackson	0.2	50			$75,000

March 31 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 31	3:30 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.7	200	$75,000
March 31	3:50 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.3	100	$25,000
March 31	8:40 PM EDT	EF1	Madison	0.5	50
March 31	8:45 PM EDT	EF1	Suwannee	2.2	200	$750,000

April 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 1	4:22 PM EDT	EF0	Seminole	0.0	15

April 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 2	5:25 PM EDT	EF0	Gadsden	0.3	25

April 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 13	10:10 PM EDT	EF0	Saint Johns	0.2	100

April 14 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 14	8:28 AM EDT	EF1	Pasco	2.4	75	$275,000
April 14	9:00 AM EDT	EF0	Pasco	0.2	25	$30,000
April 14	11:01 AM EDT	EF0	Brevard	0.2	30

May 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 12	5:00 PM EDT	EF0	Polk	0.0	15			$15,000

May 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 13	6:33 PM EDT	EF0	Hillsborough	1.4	30			$75,000

May 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 19	11:42 PM EDT	EF0	Seminole	0.1	50			$100,000

May 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 22	12:45 PM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	1.3	10

June 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 4	11:10 AM EDT	EF0	Leon	0.1	25			$1.3 million

June 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 10	6:20 PM EDT	EF0	Glades	0.5	10			$50,000

June 23 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 23	4:45 PM EDT	EF0	Citrus	0.5	50	$250,000
June 23	5:15 PM EDT	EF0	Franklin	0.6	25	$5,000
June 23	12:25 AM EDT	EF1	Sarasota	0.6	100	$350,000

June 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 26	5:00 PM EDT	EF0	Duval	7.1	20

June 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 30	3:05 PM EDT	EF0	Hillsborough	0.1	20			$20,000

July 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 1	7:48 AM EDT	EF0	Hillsborough	2.9	30			$5,000

July 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 12	6:30 PM EDT	EF0	Indian River	0.4	20

July 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 15	7:45 PM EDT	EF0	Orange	0.1	50			$25,000

July 24 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 24	5:46 PM EDT	EF0	Volusia	0.6	50			$1,000
July 24	6:25 PM EDT	EF0	Volusia	0.7	165		1	$2.5 million

July 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 27	11:27 AM EDT	EF0	Hillsborough	0.2	30

August 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 12	5:20 PM EDT	EF0	Polk	0.1	30			$35,000

August 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 16	4:42 PM EDT	EF0	Lee	0.4	20			$103,000

December 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 2	7:32 AM CST	EF0	Okaloosa	0.0	50

December 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 9	12:05 PM EST	EF0	Leon	0.6	50			$50,000

December 18 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 18	11:00 AM EST	EF0	Miami-Dade	1.1	50
December 18	2:35 PM EST	EF0	Monroe	1.2	25	$10,000
December 18	3:58 PM EST	EF0	Hardee	0.2	20	$75,000
December 18	5:55 PM EST	EF0	Monroe	0.1	10	$5,000

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.