EF1 tornado, Ulmerton to Highpoint, Florida, June 25, 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

June 25, 2025

Touchdown

7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)

Lifted

7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)

On the ground

8 minutes

Path length

2.1 miles (3.3 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$250,000

County

Pinellas County

Touchdown point

27.870, -82.740

Lift-off point

27.900, -82.740

Record number

2506251702-02

37 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS TBW, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 90 mph.

• Worst damage at this location with only carport damage at the homes on either side of this one next door. Across the street had minor damage from the debris.
• Minor roof damage and siding damage.
• Part of roof removed along with all of carport and collapse of storage structure with it. Carport damage next door as well.
• Small palm tree trunk snapped.

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

Early evening easterly flow sea breeze convection enhanced by a mid-to-upper level disturbance moving across the peninsula produces a landspout tornado near Largo in Pinellas County causing EF-1 damage but no injuries, and severe hail near Kenneth City in Pinellas County and Fort Myers in Lee County.

Strong thunderstorms developed over Pinellas County as the east and west coast sea breeze boundaries collided. A landspout tornado developed in Largo, FL, along colliding sea breeze and outflow boundaries.||The setup leading to the landspout's development was complex. Two boundaries collided over Largo - one from a strong cell to the southwest and one from another strong cell to the east. As these boundaries collided, a new updraft began to develop where the collision took place. Strong downdrafts from both cells essentially sandwiched the boundary and the developing updraft between the more mature cells - forcing the developing cell to take a deviant track to the north, right along the boundary collision. This caused the cell to begin rotating.||At approximately 5:57 PM EST, the TTPA terminal doppler radar observed rotation just south of Belcher Rd near the intersection with Bryan Dairy Rd. Reflectivity data at the same time showed almost no precipitation on the 0.3 degree slice, but a still-suspended and developing core aloft at higher tilts. The rotation was only very vaguely distinguishable on the KTBW radar, given the developing cell's motion with respect to the beam angle. Ultimately, the angle masked the actual storm-relative velocity. Over the next couple minutes, the rotation intensified and at 6:02 PM EST, the first damage occurred at a shopping center near the aforementioned intersection. Over the next eight minutes, additional damage reports were received along a track oriented generally south to north. The most significant damage was noted in the Ranchero Village community, where several mobile/manufactured structures were badly damaged, indicating a peak intensity of around 90 mph.||At 6:10 PM EST, the landspout dissipated as the TTPA terminal doppler radar data showed the circulation weakening. This took place as a gust front from another mature cell to the east arrived, altering the ability for the developing cell to remain on the boundary that was allowing it to spin. In total, the feature was tracked for just over 2 miles and had a maximum width of 100 yards.

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 Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:59 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 Tampa radar (KTBW), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:01 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

15 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.