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2011 tornadoes in Florida

39 tornadoes touched down in Florida in 2011, 21 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

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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 2011

January 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 17	11:03 AM EST	EF0	Orange	0.1	20

January 25 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 25	4:35 PM EST	EF0	Sumter	0.9	30
January 25	6:15 PM EST	EF0	Manatee	1.0	30
January 25	6:41 PM EST	EF0	Hardee	0.9	30
January 25	7:08 PM EST	EF0	Hardee	1.1	30
January 25	7:40 PM EST	EF0	Lee	0.3	50	$100,000
January 25	8:09 PM EST	EF0	Highlands	0.9	30	$5,000
January 25	10:50 PM EST	EF0	Palm Beach	0.2	50	$20,000

March 9 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 9	9:28 AM CST	EF0	Escambia	0.5	80
March 9	10:02 AM CST	EF0	Santa Rosa	0.1	50

March 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 10	12:19 PM EST	EF0	Miami-Dade	3.3	20			$1,000

March 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 30	3:56 PM EDT	EF1	Sumter	2.2	40

March 31 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 31	8:27 AM EDT	EF0	Hillsborough	4.3	30
March 31	8:38 AM EDT	EF0	Hillsborough	5.6	30	$20,000
March 31	9:12 AM EDT	EF0	Polk	5.5	50
March 31	11:04 AM EDT	EF1	Pinellas	0.1	30	$750,000
March 31	11:19 AM EDT	EF1	Pinellas	1.0	60	$5,000
March 31	11:30 AM EDT	EF1	Hillsborough	1.6	100	$2.3 million
March 31	11:40 AM EDT	EF1	Hillsborough	5.2	100	$1.6 million
March 31	12:04 PM EDT	EF1	Polk	0.8	30	$500,000
March 31	12:06 PM EDT	EF0	Polk	9.4	60	$5,000

April 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 26	7:05 PM EDT	EF0	Saint Lucie	0.1	15

April 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 28	4:50 AM CDT	EF1	Jackson	3.0	150			$500,000

July 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 7	5:05 PM EDT	EF0	Pasco	0.2	20			$20,000

August 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 2	5:03 PM EDT	EF1	Broward	2.1	90			$180,000

August 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 5	7:36 PM EDT	EF0	Lake	0.4	10			$25,000

September 4 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
September 4	3:10 AM CDT	EF1	Escambia	2.4	50	$250,000
September 4	5:15 AM CDT	EF0	Okaloosa	0.8	40	$25,000
September 4	10:32 AM CDT	EF0	Bay	1.1	25

September 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 5	12:57 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	0.3	25			$1,000

September 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 19	2:15 PM EDT	EF0	Orange	0.1	15

October 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 10	3:15 AM EDT	EF1	Clay	0.7	30			$20,000

October 18 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 18	7:25 PM EDT	EF0	Glades	1.0	50	$50,000
October 18	7:55 PM EDT	EF0	Glades	1.9	50
October 18	9:20 PM EDT	EF0	Martin	0.3	100	$207,000
October 18	9:30 PM EDT	EF0	Indian River	0.1	75	$24,000
October 18	10:07 PM EDT	EF2	Broward	1.1	125	$4.0 million

October 29 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 29	9:16 AM EDT	EF0	Martin	0.3	25			$200,000
October 29	9:18 AM EDT	EF0	Martin	0.4	40

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.