EF1 tornado, Bloxham to Andrew, Florida, April 7, 2025

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. 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.

7. 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.

Rating

EF1

Date

April 7, 2025

Touchdown

11:27 AM EDT (15:27 UTC)

Lifted

11:49 AM EDT (15:49 UTC)

On the ground

22 minutes

Path length

12.2 miles (19.6 km)

Path width

300 yards (274 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$3,000

County

Leon County

Touchdown point

30.338, -84.605

Lift-off point

30.440, -84.438

Record number

2504070927-02

17 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS TAE, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EFU. The highest wind the damage implies is 104 mph.

• Damage point was inaccessible by vehicle due to road conditions. Position estimated by radar TDS.
• Three mature pines snapped.
• Six trees felled in opposing directions.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

Severe storms ahead a cold front produced wind damage a few tornadoes across portions of the Florida big bend and southwest Georgia.

A tornado touched down in the Apalachicola National Forest approximately four miles southwest of Bloxham Cutoff Road (CR 267). After crossing that highway, the tornado continued northeast across the forest and caused EF1 damage to mature pines on National Forest Road 360, Backwoods Jackson Bluff Road, and Sand Fry Road. The tornado weakened as it approached the Whispering Pines neighborhood where it caused minor damage to a roof and snapped some large branches. The tornado dissipated just before reaching Florida SR 20. Damage was consistent with an EF1 tornado with maximum winds of 90 mph. Many damage points in the forest were inaccessible by vehicle due to road conditions. Those positions were estimated by doppler radar tornado debris signatures (TDS).

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 14:22 UTC and running to 18:25 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 12:30 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 15:26 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2025 tornado in FloridaEvery tornado in Florida since 1950Warnings in force in Florida nowThe forecast where you are

8 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.