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2023 tornadoes in Florida

54 tornadoes touched down in Florida in 2023, 9 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

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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 2023

January 22 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 22	5:14 AM CST	EF2	Walton	0.8	85			$250,000
January 22	12:45 PM EST	EF1	Wakulla	0.3	200			$100,000

January 25 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 25	5:04 AM CST	EF0	Walton	1.5	50
January 25	5:15 AM CST	EF0	Walton	0.6	75
January 25	5:16 AM CST	EF0	Walton	0.6	50
January 25	8:34 AM EST	EF0	Liberty	0.5	50	$10,000
January 25	10:23 AM EST	EF1	Leon	3.2	550

February 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 9	8:26 PM CST	EF1	Walton	0.2	50			$5,000

March 17 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 17	7:20 PM CDT	EF0	Walton	0.1	25
March 17	7:49 PM CDT	EF0	Bay	5.2	25

April 12 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 12	3:26 PM EDT	EF0	Broward	0.0	10
April 12	9:40 PM EDT	EF0	Broward	1.7	50			$50,000

April 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 16	5:36 PM EDT	EF0	Brevard	0.5	100			$425,000

April 21 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 21	9:36 AM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.0	10
April 21	12:44 PM EDT	EF0	Broward	0.1	10

April 27 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 27	2:14 PM CDT	EF0	Calhoun	0.5	50
April 27	3:54 PM EDT	EF2	Liberty	2.5	960	$500,000
April 27	3:04 PM CDT	EF1	Bay	0.8	75	$200,000
April 27	3:33 PM CDT	EF0	Calhoun	0.9	50
April 27	5:21 PM EDT	EF0	Wakulla	2.3	50
April 27	6:14 PM EDT	EF0	Gadsden	1.5	75
April 27	6:42 PM EDT	EF1	Madison	0.6	100

April 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 28	7:33 PM EDT	EF0	Palm Beach	0.8	100			$50,000

April 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 29	5:10 PM EDT	EF2	Palm Beach	2.6	320			$250,000

April 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 30	6:34 AM EDT	EF1	Charlotte	4.6	50			$50,000

May 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 25	1:20 PM EDT	EF0	Miami-Dade	0.6	75		1	$50,000

June 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 7	5:19 PM EDT	EF1	Brevard	1.0	300

June 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 9	3:14 PM EDT	EF0	Franklin	0.3	50

June 15 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 15	7:43 PM EDT	EF0	Franklin	0.4	50	$5,000
June 15	8:35 PM CDT	EF2	Escambia	8.6	450
June 15	1:43 AM EDT	EF0	Taylor	1.0	50

June 16 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
June 16	2:20 AM EDT	EF0	Taylor	7.2	100
June 16	3:09 AM EDT	EF0	Jefferson	6.4	100
June 16	3:30 AM EDT	EF0	Taylor	3.4	75
June 16	3:45 AM EDT	EF1	Taylor	1.3	80		$50,000
June 16	4:10 PM EDT	Unrated	Pinellas	0.1	25	2

June 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 18	11:10 AM EDT	EF0	Lee	0.0	10			$5,000

June 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 19	11:16 AM CDT	EF1	Walton	1.6	200			$25,000

July 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 22	4:50 PM EDT	EF0	Volusia	0.6	20

August 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 16	9:55 AM EDT	EF0	Monroe	0.0	20

August 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 24	4:55 PM EDT	EF0	Collier	0.8	50			$100,000

September 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 11	6:10 PM EDT	EF0	Saint Johns	0.0	5			$75,000

September 26 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 26	4:40 PM EDT	EF0	Clay	0.4	10
September 26	5:05 PM EDT	EF0	Clay	0.0	5

October 11 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 11	10:59 PM EDT	EF0	Sarasota	0.2	50	$10,000
October 11	12:13 AM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	0.3	50	$50,000
October 11	1:47 AM EDT	EF2	Pinellas	5.0	300	$500,000

October 12 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 12	2:08 AM EDT	EF2	Citrus	5.6	300	$350,000
October 12	2:17 AM EDT	EF0	Pasco	0.1	15	$2,000
October 12	4:30 AM EDT	EF0	Flagler	12.1	25
October 12	4:40 AM EDT	EF2	Flagler	1.0	200
October 12	11:34 AM EDT	EF0	Pinellas	0.4	15	$5,000

November 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 15	6:27 AM EST	EF0	Monroe	0.1	70			$2,000

December 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 10	5:30 AM CST	EF1	Holmes	3.0	250

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.