EF0 tornado, Cantonment, Florida, June 17, 2025

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

   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. 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

EF0

Date

June 17, 2025

Touchdown

11:41 AM CDT (16:41 UTC)

Lifted

11:42 AM CDT (16:42 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.1 miles (0.2 km)

Path width

5 yards (5 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Escambia County

Touchdown point

30.604, -87.352

Lift-off point

30.606, -87.350

Record number

2506171041-01

3 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MOB, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 65 mph.

• Fence damage at this location from a brief tornado evident from social media video. Tornado tracked from southwest to northeast here.
• Video shows the tornado tracked across this location.
• Very small tree snapped at this location facing due east on the backside of the tornado based on social media photo. Went with lower bound of large branch DI given the isolated nature of the damage and the size of the tree itself being no more than a few inches in diameter.

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

A weak tornado moved through portions of Cantonment.

A very compact, short-lived EF0 tornado moved through the Twin|Pines community in Cantonment. This tornado began on the south|side of the community where a very small tree was snapped lying|due east. The tornado continued northeast where public provided|video showed a small vortex around 5 yards wide crossed the|northeast corner of the fence and the intersection where Twin|Pines Circle loops back on itself. Minor damage to the fence|occurred here along with other loose objects being thrown across|the road. The tornado was visible on the video as it crossed the|adjacent neighbors's property and disappeared into the tree line.|It's possible this tornado began sooner and ended later, and|further refinements of the track are possible in the coming days.

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.

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 16:18 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 Mobile radar (KMOB), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 16:42 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

21 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.