Unrated tornado, Pine Grove, Florida, August 4, 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 mph

   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. Unratedthis tornado

   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

Unrated

Date

August 4, 2025

Touchdown

7:14 PM EDT (23:14 UTC)

Lifted

7:22 PM EDT (23:22 UTC)

On the ground

8 minutes

Path length

2.2 miles (3.6 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Osceola County

Touchdown point

28.288, -81.158

Lift-off point

28.289, -81.121

Record number

2508041714-01

1 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MLB, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EFU.

• A brief tornado occurred over northern rural Osceola County on Monday, August 4, 2025 as confirmed by a combination of video evidence from local media partners and data from the National Weather Service Melbourne (KMLB) radar. The tornado developed as a result of numerous low-level boundary collisions. The circulation is estimated to have touched down at approximately 7:14 PM EDT along the southern side of Lake Joel in St. Cloud, near Sungrove Ln and the C-32 Canal. KMLB radar data indicate the circulation, along with a corresponding debris signature, moved east over a densely wooded area before subsequently lifting around 7:22 PM EDT., just west of Storey Bend Rd. Given limited access to the affected area, the track is considered approximate, and an EF-rating cannot be provided at this time. Refinements to the track will be made if additional photographic or video evidence becomes available.

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

A tornado moved through a rural portion of northern Osceola County.

A brief tornado occurred over northern rural Osceola County as confirmed by a combination of video evidence from local media partners and data from the National Weather Service Melbourne (KMLB) radar. ||The brief, and likely weak, tornado developed as a result of numerous low-level boundary collisions. The circulation is estimated to have touched down at approximately 18:14 LST along the southern side of Lake Joel in St. Cloud, near Sungrove Ln and |the C-32 Canal. KMLB radar data indicates the circulation, along with a corresponding debris signature, moved east over a densely wooded area before subsequently lifting around 18:22 LST, just west of Storey Bend Rd. ||Given limited access to the affected area, the track is considered approximate, and an EF rating cannot be provided.

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.

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 General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:52 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 radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:15 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

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.