Tornadoes · United States · Florida

2019 tornadoes in Florida

25 tornadoes touched down in Florida in 2019, 49 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2018 2020 The whole country in 2019

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 2019

January 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 19	6:22 PM CST	EF1	Bay	0.8	50			$20,000

January 24 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 24	6:20 AM EST	EF0	Seminole	0.5	175			$1.4 million
January 24	9:18 AM EST	EF0	Palm Beach	0.2	25

January 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 27	7:52 PM EST	EF0	Miami-Dade	0.4	100

March 3 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 3	4:28 PM CST	EF0	Walton	11.9	400
March 3	5:33 PM CST	EF1	Washington	5.3	300	$105,000
March 3	7:41 PM EST	EF1	Gadsden	2.1	275	$50,000
March 3	8:06 PM EST	EF0	Wakulla	18.4	300	$5,000
March 3	8:18 PM EST	EF3	Leon	8.8	700	$500,000
March 3	8:42 PM EST	EF0	Wakulla	0.7	50

April 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 19	8:26 AM EDT	EF0	Liberty	18.1	150

May 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 3	4:50 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.0	20

May 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 5	11:27 AM EDT	EF1	Marion	0.9	100
May 5	12:40 PM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	0.4	50			$50,000

May 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	6:48 PM EDT	EF0	Lee	0.1	30			$25,000

July 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 25	3:49 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.1	5

August 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 4	7:20 PM EDT	EF0	Monroe	0.1	20

October 18 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 18	9:29 PM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	0.3	30			$100,000
October 18	10:59 PM EDT	EF2	Polk	11.4	525			$10 million

October 19 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 19	6:45 AM EDT	EF1	Lee	1.1	100			$600,000
October 19	2:50 PM EDT	EF0	Brevard	0.1	10

November 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 5	4:20 PM EST	EF0	Martin	0.3	10

December 14 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
December 14	3:53 AM EST	EF0	Alachua	0.2	45
December 14	5:05 AM EST	EF0	Saint Johns	0.3	325
December 14	5:14 AM EST	EF1	Flagler	19.4	880

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.