EF0 tornado, Town N Country, Florida, May 24, 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

May 24, 2026

Touchdown

6:58 PM EDT (22:58 UTC)

Lifted

7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)

On the ground

3 minutes

Path length

0.4 miles (0.6 km)

Path width

75 yards (69 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Hillsborough County

Touchdown point

27.996, -82.597

Lift-off point

28.000, -82.601

Highest wind the damage implies

79 mph

Surveyed by

NWS TBW

The office's name for it

Villages of Bayport Tor

Survey last edited

May 25, 2026

Record number

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

On Sunday, May 24th, 2026 a developing thunderstorm produced a waterspout that moved onshore in the Villages of Bayport Community. Damage to a single pool cage was noted, and some images show small debris being lofted into the air. Residents in the neighborhood reported and shared images of a few additional structures that sustained minor damage. Additionally, a large tree was also blown over in the community one street over from where the main damage was noted. No additional damage or reports could be located.

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

3 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS TBW, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 79 mph.

• Loss of pool cage, some siding damage.
• Large tree uprooted. No damage noted past this point.
• No damage noted to additional homes on street north of location.

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

A developing thunderstorm over Tampa Bay produced a brief EF-0 tornado that affected the Villages of Bayport community in Hillsborough County. Elsewhere, easterly sea breeze afternoon convection produced a funnel cloud near Buckingham in Lee County.

Damage to a single pool cage was noted, and some images show small debris being lofted into the air. Residents in the neighborhood reported and shared images of a few additional structures that sustained minor damage. Additionally, a large tree was also blown over in the community one street over from where the main damage was noted. No additional damage or reports could be located.

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 19:48 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.

Tampa International Airport (TPA), 7 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 38 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 22:56 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

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.