Tornadoes · United States · Florida

2017 tornadoes in Florida

57 tornadoes touched down in Florida in 2017, 15 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2016 2018 The whole country in 2017

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 2017

January 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 7	1:30 AM EST	EF0	Suwannee	0.2	50

January 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 22	2:50 PM EST	EF1	Franklin	2.4	350

January 23 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 23	1:25 AM EST	EF1	Palm Beach	3.2	90
January 23	1:40 AM EST	EF1	Palm Beach	5.8	130	$1.0 million
January 23	3:45 AM EST	EF1	Miami-Dade	2.8	123

February 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 7	10:00 PM EST	EF1	Bradford	1.1	75
February 7	10:37 PM EST	EF1	Saint Johns	0.5	160

March 13 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 13	8:03 PM EDT	EF1	Charlotte	0.2	100
March 13	9:15 PM EDT	EF1	Charlotte	0.1	75
March 13	1:23 AM EDT	EF0	Broward	1.3	50	$25,000

March 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 23	1:40 PM EDT	EF0	Saint Lucie	1.0	30			$2,000

April 6 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 6	9:51 AM EDT	EF2	Okeechobee	4.1	150		$250,000
April 6	10:18 AM EDT	EF0	Lee	1.6	10		$5,000
April 6	10:30 AM EDT	EF0	Lee	7.4	20	1	$110,000

May 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 2	5:30 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.3	25

May 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 24	8:53 AM EDT	Unrated	Saint Johns	0.6	25

June 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 5	7:07 PM EDT	EF0	Broward	0.1	10

June 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 6	2:11 PM EDT	EF1	Saint Johns	2.2	70

June 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 14	1:30 PM EDT	EF0	Osceola	0.0	10

June 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 20	10:15 AM EDT	EF0	Franklin	0.4	50			$10,000

June 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 21	6:18 AM CDT	EF0	Okaloosa	2.5	75			$40,000

July 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 7	8:00 PM EDT	EF0	Orange	0.1	15
July 7	8:29 PM EDT	EF0	Osceola	0.7	25			$20,000

July 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 27	1:38 PM EDT	EF0	Duval	0.1	40

July 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 31	10:55 AM EDT	EF0	Manatee	0.7	100			$96,000

August 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 11	5:03 PM EDT	EF0	Monroe	0.2	25

August 18 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 18	5:40 PM EDT	EF0	Indian River	0.2	20
August 18	6:29 PM EDT	EF0	Brevard	0.4	15			$8,000

August 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 26	9:19 PM EDT	EF0	Manatee	0.3	50			$20,000

September 9 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
September 9	12:20 PM EDT	EF1	Collier	0.3	50
September 9	6:35 PM EDT	EF0	Broward	1.9	100
September 9	7:01 PM EDT	EF0	Miami-Dade	2.1	75
September 9	8:13 PM EDT	EF1	Broward	0.1	50
September 9	8:17 PM EDT	EF1	Broward	0.3	50

September 10 16 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
September 10	8:59 AM EDT	EF1	Hardee	0.0	50	$40,000
September 10	9:19 AM EDT	EF0	Brevard	0.2	50
September 10	11:00 AM EDT	EF1	Brevard	1.3	75
September 10	11:19 AM EDT	EF2	Polk	0.6	50	$20,000
September 10	11:24 AM EDT	EF1	Brevard	1.2	75
September 10	1:40 PM EDT	EF1	Saint Johns	1.2	50
September 10	5:48 PM EDT	EF2	Brevard	1.6	125
September 10	6:00 PM EDT	EF1	Brevard	0.5	60
September 10	6:28 PM EDT	EF1	Lake	3.8	500
September 10	7:50 PM EDT	EF1	Saint Johns	5.0	200
September 10	8:13 PM EDT	EF0	Flagler	4.1	200
September 10	9:04 PM EDT	EF1	Volusia	0.8	175
September 10	9:04 PM EDT	EF1	Brevard	1.2	50
September 10	9:14 PM EDT	EF1	Brevard	0.3	60
September 10	9:48 PM EDT	EF1	Brevard	3.4	60
September 10	1:15 AM EDT	EF2	Saint Johns	1.2	300

September 11 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 11	2:25 AM EDT	EF0	Nassau	10.7	100
September 11	2:25 AM EDT	EF0	Nassau	6.0	100

October 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 24	3:15 PM EDT	EF0	Broward	0.0	20

October 28 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
October 28	1:19 PM EDT	EF0	Miami-Dade	0.5	50
October 28	5:42 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.3	75
October 28	6:08 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	2.1	125

November 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 22	4:40 PM EST	EF0	Collier	0.3	25

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.