EF0 tornado, Millers Ferry, Florida, June 18, 2026

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, as surveyed

EF0, preliminary

Date

June 18, 2026

Touchdown

10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)

Lifted

10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)

On the ground

5 minutes

Path length

1.8 miles (3.0 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Washington County

Touchdown point

30.536, -85.850

Lift-off point

30.544, -85.820

Highest wind the damage implies

60 mph

Surveyed by

NWS TAE

Survey last edited

July 1, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

Brief tornado touched down along Highway 79 near Potter Spring Road. No structural damage was reported, with only small limbs down reported. A TDS signature was reported on radar. Exact start and end locations is estimated based on damage photo and radar signatures.

Written by NWS TAE in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

1 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS TAE, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 60 mph.

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

A slow moving frontal boundary affected the area during the June 15-19 period with multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms. Some severe weather was reported, and one tornado was confirmed in Washington county.

A brief tornado touched down along Highway 79 near Potter Spring Road. No structural damage was reported, with only tree limbs down reported. A TDS signature was observed on radar. The exact start and end locations are estimated based on a damage photo and radar signatures. The tornado was rated EF0 with max winds estimated around 60 mph.

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

9 minutes of warning. NWS TAE issued a tornado warning for this county at 03:16 UTC, 9 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 03:46 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 Marginal Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 00:59 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 Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 9 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 03:22 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 2026 tornado in FloridaEvery tornado in Florida since 1950Warnings in force in Florida nowThe forecast where you are

50 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.