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2013 tornadoes in Florida

36 tornadoes touched down in Florida in 2013, 27 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2012 2014 The whole country in 2013

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 2013

February 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 14	4:33 PM EST	EF0	Palm Beach	0.0	10			$1,000

February 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 25	1:22 PM EST	EF0	Franklin	0.0	20

February 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 26	11:12 AM EST	EF0	Hillsborough	0.7	50			$35,000

April 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 5	2:10 AM EDT	EF0	Monroe	1.6	80			$30,000

April 14 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 14	3:30 PM EDT	EF0	Franklin	1.9	10	$20,000
April 14	8:42 PM EDT	EF0	Brevard	0.3	100
April 14	9:11 PM EDT	EF0	Brevard	0.6	100

April 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 30	1:56 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.1	10

May 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 2	1:25 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.4	50

May 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 4	9:14 PM EDT	EF0	Saint Johns	0.9	200			$500,000

June 6 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
June 6	2:47 AM EDT	EF0	Manatee	1.5	50		$50,000
June 6	3:18 AM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.6	25
June 6	3:27 AM EDT	EF0	Hillsborough	9.8	50		$36,000
June 6	6:45 AM EDT	EF1	Palm Beach	2.0	100	1
June 6	7:57 AM EDT	EF0	Broward	20.7	25
June 6	10:03 AM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	1.9	50		$20,000
June 6	11:13 AM EDT	EF0	Sarasota	1.6	50		$10,000
June 6	2:05 PM EDT	EF0	Lee	0.3	30
June 6	4:48 PM EDT	EF1	Duval	18.9	704

June 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 24	8:24 PM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	1.9	10

June 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 25	9:00 PM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	0.1	5			$2,000

July 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 1	5:50 PM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	0.1	20			$10,000

July 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 5	2:00 PM CDT	EF0	Okaloosa	0.3	40			$5,000

July 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 9	6:33 PM EDT	EF0	Manatee	0.2	15		1	$20,000

July 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 15	6:40 PM EDT	EF0	Manatee	1.2	5

July 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 19	3:45 PM EDT	EF0	Broward	0.1	10		3

July 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 21	2:30 PM EDT	EF0	Saint Johns	0.1	20

July 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 22	6:30 PM CDT	EF0	Escambia	0.0	30			$5,000

July 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 23	12:45 PM EDT	EF0	Broward	0.0	10			$10,000

July 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 31	7:35 PM EDT	EF0	Hamilton	0.0	10

August 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 1	4:15 PM EDT	EF1	Duval	1.9	100			$500,000

September 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 16	11:10 AM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.1	10			$1,000

October 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 8	3:24 PM EDT	EF0	Hillsborough	0.3	30

November 26 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 26	9:00 AM CST	EF1	Gulf	2.9	50			$200,000
November 26	10:13 AM EST	EF0	Liberty	4.2	50

December 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 14	7:00 PM EST	EF1	Flagler	9.5	150			$5.0 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.