EF1 tornado, (Npa)Nas Pensacola to Pensacola Beach, Florida, May 10, 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

May 10, 2025

Touchdown

6:21 AM CDT (11:21 UTC)

Lifted

6:22 AM CDT (11:22 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.4 miles (0.6 km)

Path width

150 yards (137 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Escambia County

Touchdown point

30.330, -87.141

Lift-off point

30.335, -87.138

Record number

2505100521-01

14 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MOB, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 100 mph.

• A few tree branches down near the Graupera St and Fairfield Dr intersection.
• Waterspout moved onshore Pensacola Beach just east of the pier, tracked across Sidelines Sports Bar and Grill damaging the sign. Video shows the waterspout moving onshore.
• Light pole knocked down east of the volleyball nets. Western edge of tornado more than likely.
• roofing material of the UFO building deposited on the west side of the parking lot at the Hampton Inn shared via X.

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

Multiple supercell thunderstorms moved onshore and produced damaging winds and tornadoes.

A brief tornado impacted the west side of the Warrington|community (near the Beach Haven area) early in the morning on May|10th. The tornado began near Selma St and rapidly moved to the|northeast as it crossed Gulf Beach Hwy. Small tree limbs were|scattered along Gulf Beach Hwy between S Fairfield Dr and Rentz|Ave. A corridor of tree damage was noted along several streets to|the north of Gulf Beach Hwy. Trees were uprooted and snapped|along both Rentz and Calhoun Ave, with tree branch debris noted|up and down the streets. The more significant corridor of damage|was noted near Graupera St and Rentz Ave, where uplift of a porch|awning led to roof damage to one home, with nearby roof damage to|an outbuilding/shed and windows broken at another nearby home.|Trees were snapped and uprooted near the aforementioned|intersection. The tornado continued up Rentz Ave, with tree|branch debris noted up and down the street. The tornado likely|lifted near Rentz Ave and Eliasberg St as the tree damage became|very sporadic to that intersection. Future adjustments to the|track are possible as higher-resolution satellite imagery becomes|available.

A waterspout moved onshore Pensacola Beach just east of the pier.|This tornado first affected a light pole near the volleyball nets|just off of Casino Beach Boardwalk. This was where the tornado|was its strongest with winds somewhere between 90 to 100mph. The|tornado continued to the northeast as it weakened, impacting the|UFO mini golf building removing a chunk of roofing material and|depositing it to the northeast in the Hampton Inn parking lot. A|sign to the north at the Sideline Sports Bar and Restaurant was|knocked down. Further northeast, the Water Pig BBQ had its smoker|tossed from the building to the north around 20 to 30 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 General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 05:49 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.

Pensacola Regional (PNS), 17 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 11:22 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

4 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.