Tornadoes · United States · Florida

2020 tornadoes in Florida

58 tornadoes touched down in Florida in 2020, 17 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2019 2021 The whole country in 2020

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 2020

January 4 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 4	10:29 AM EST	EF0	Lake	2.4	175		1
January 4	11:26 AM EST	EF1	Volusia	4.4	265			$25,000

January 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 31	10:35 PM EST	Unrated	Monroe	4.7	50

February 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 6	10:38 PM EST	EF0	Pinellas	9.2	50		1	$200,000

March 31 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 31	12:55 PM CDT	EF0	Walton	0.2	25	$2,000
March 31	4:10 PM EDT	EF1	Jefferson	9.2	150	$2,000
March 31	4:17 PM EDT	EF1	Madison	11.7	100
March 31	4:33 PM EDT	EF0	Madison	0.1	50	$50,000
March 31	5:26 PM EDT	EF0	Suwannee	0.8	704
March 31	7:29 PM EDT	EF0	Saint Johns	0.4	704

April 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 13	10:09 AM EDT	EF0	Suwannee	3.1	175

April 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 15	7:17 AM EDT	EF0	Duval	14.9	125

April 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 17	10:53 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.8	75

April 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 19	12:07 AM CDT	EF0	Santa Rosa	0.2	50

April 20 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 20	9:35 AM EDT	EF1	Marion	0.5	500
April 20	9:39 AM EDT	EF0	Citrus	7.3	35	$100,000
April 20	11:45 AM EDT	EF0	Seminole	2.7	25

April 23 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 23	2:51 PM CDT	EF1	Okaloosa	2.7	50
April 23	3:13 PM CDT	EF1	Walton	9.1	100	$200,000
April 23	3:48 PM CDT	EF2	Washington	17.2	400	$500,000
April 23	4:00 PM CDT	EF0	Bay	13.4	75	$50,000
April 23	4:09 PM CDT	EF0	Bay	0.9	50
April 23	6:22 PM EDT	EF1	Leon	10.6	600	$10,000
April 23	6:54 PM EDT	EF1	Wakulla	3.9	100	$25,000
April 23	7:56 PM EDT	EF1	Taylor	0.5	100	$50,000
April 23	9:11 PM EDT	EF0	Gilchrist	0.6	50

April 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 29	7:34 PM EDT	EF1	Gadsden	1.0	150			$50,000

May 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 21	2:45 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	1:30 AM EDT	EF1	Miami-Dade	4.8	40

June 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 1	5:39 PM EDT	EF0	Sarasota	0.6	75

June 6 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 6	5:53 PM EDT	EF0	Sumter	0.3	75
June 6	5:59 PM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	0.9	75	$30,000
June 6	6:07 PM EDT	EF0	Orange	0.0	10
June 6	6:20 PM EDT	EF0	Sumter	0.5	75	$40,000
June 6	6:40 PM EDT	EF0	Orange	0.0	20
June 6	7:20 PM EDT	EF1	Orange	5.1	500	$956,000
June 6	8:27 PM EDT	EF0	Volusia	2.0	200

June 7 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 7	3:30 PM EDT	EF0	Columbia	1.4	100
June 7	3:40 PM EDT	EF0	Lake	0.0	25
June 7	4:05 PM EDT	EF0	Union	0.0	25
June 7	6:41 PM EDT	EF0	Lake	0.5	20

June 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 26	7:45 PM EDT	EF0	Sarasota	0.4	75

July 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 14	6:45 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.3	25

July 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 16	6:05 PM EDT	EF0	Manatee	0.2	75

August 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 9	6:15 PM EDT	EF0	Manatee	0.2	100			$20,000

August 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 16	4:48 PM EDT	EF0	Brevard	0.4	15

August 18 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 18	3:48 PM EDT	EF2	Volusia	4.6	550		1	$8.0 million
August 18	3:48 PM EDT	EF0	Volusia	0.1	70			$40,000

August 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 19	2:20 PM EDT	EF0	Miami-Dade	0.5	160

September 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 16	7:53 AM CDT	EF0	Calhoun	9.9	50			$1,000

November 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 11	12:18 PM EST	EF0	Manatee	0.4	100

November 30 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 30	3:10 AM EST	EF1	Madison	5.5	475			$100,000
November 30	6:00 AM EST	Unrated	Pinellas	12.4	50			$1,000

December 16 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 16	3:49 PM EST	EF2	Pinellas	13.1	300			$16 million
December 16	4:53 PM EST	EF1	Hillsborough	12.9	250			$280,000

December 24 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
December 24	6:16 PM EST	EF1	Bradford	4.1	100	2
December 24	6:45 PM EST	EF1	Duval	0.9	60
December 24	6:54 PM EST	EF1	Duval	0.6	100

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.