Tornadoes · United States · Florida

2016 tornadoes in Florida

45 tornadoes touched down in Florida in 2016, 9 percent below the average of the record for the state. They killed 2 people and injured 18.

2015 2017 The whole country in 2016

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 2016

January 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 8	6:30 AM EST	EF0	Monroe	0.1	20			$2,000

January 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 9	6:45 PM EST	EF2	Lee	3.4	182		3	$2.0 million

January 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 15	11:10 AM EST	EF1	Lee	0.2	45			$200,000

January 17 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 17	3:10 AM EST	EF2	Sarasota	1.1	350		2	$12 million
January 17	3:35 AM EST	EF2	Manatee	9.2	300	2	4	$150,000
January 17	7:13 AM EST	EF1	Martin	0.8	75			$100,000

January 22 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 22	1:44 AM CST	EF0	Walton	3.0	50
January 22	3:49 AM CST	EF0	Calhoun	1.2	50

January 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 27	9:30 AM EST	EF1	Broward	2.3	35		2	$850,000

January 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 28	10:32 AM EST	EF0	Palm Beach	7.1	10

February 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 15	3:32 PM CST	EF3	Escambia to AL	16.4	300		3	$5.8 million

February 16 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
February 16	4:49 AM EST	EF1	Glades	1.8	75
February 16	5:10 AM EST	EF0	Collier	4.0	10
February 16	7:05 AM EST	EF0	Broward	6.7	50
February 16	7:10 AM EST	EF1	Broward	3.5	50	$160,000
February 16	7:34 AM EST	EF0	Broward	1.9	50
February 16	7:51 AM EST	EF1	Miami-Dade	3.8	150

February 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 23	8:10 PM CST	EF3	Escambia	3.0	300		3	$22 million
February 23	8:17 PM CST	EF1	Santa Rosa	2.7	100			$75,000

February 24 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
February 24	12:27 PM EST	EF1	Manatee	8.6	50
February 24	12:45 PM EST	EF0	Hillsborough	0.9	30
February 24	1:15 PM EST	EF0	Charlotte	0.2	50		$50,000
February 24	1:22 PM EST	EF1	Charlotte	2.7	100	1	$1.6 million

March 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 19	2:45 PM EDT	EF0	Broward	0.2	50

April 7 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 7	5:51 AM EDT	EF0	Pasco	3.1	50	$100,000
April 7	6:37 AM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	0.1	50	$5,000
April 7	6:55 AM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	0.8	50	$100,000

May 17 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 17	2:48 PM EDT	EF1	Indian River	0.1	100	$395,000
May 17	2:51 PM EDT	EF1	Saint Lucie	0.5	75
May 17	3:15 PM EDT	EF0	Saint Lucie	0.6	75

May 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	12:25 PM EDT	EF0	Alachua	0.7	20

June 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 1	6:45 PM EDT	EF0	Polk	0.7	30			$5,000

June 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 6	3:25 PM EDT	EF1	Duval	3.9	180

July 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 8	8:33 PM EDT	EF0	Osceola	0.3	30

July 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 11	7:00 PM EDT	EF0	Manatee	0.1	20

July 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 23	9:00 PM EDT	EF0	Marion	0.9	50

August 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 4	1:40 PM EDT	EF1	Nassau	3.7	200

August 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 13	7:26 PM EDT	EF0	Lee	0.1	15			$20,000

September 1 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
September 1	8:07 PM EDT	EF0	Taylor	0.0	25
September 1	8:36 PM EDT	EF0	Taylor	0.0	25
September 1	8:38 PM EDT	EF0	Orange	1.5	150	$21,000
September 1	8:40 PM EDT	EF0	Lake	4.3	250	$22,000
September 1	10:39 PM EDT	EF0	Taylor	0.0	25

September 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 13	1:51 PM EDT	EF0	Brevard	3.5	250			$40,000

November 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 30	10:38 AM CST	EF0	Okaloosa	0.8	175			$50,000

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.