EF0 tornado, Parrish, Florida, May 26, 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 26, 2026

Touchdown

5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)

Lifted

5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.2 miles (0.4 km)

Path width

25 yards (23 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Manatee County

Touchdown point

27.612, -82.422

Lift-off point

27.616, -82.421

Highest wind the damage implies

65 mph

Surveyed by

NWS TBW

The office's name for it

Parrish Tornado

Survey last edited

May 27, 2026

Record number

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

A tornado briefly touched down just west of U.S. Hwy 301, where the resident of a home along Loch Ness Gln witnessed damage to the backyard fence. The resident reported that the tornado lifted shortly thereafter, while another area resident witnessed debris being lofted in an open field just to the north prior to the tornado lifting. No additional damage or reports were received.

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

2 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 65 mph.

• Witness saw the rotation briefly touch down, cause damage to their back fence, and quickly lift back up.
• Resident reported tornado lofting debris over open field before dissipating shortly thereafter. Time and location estimated from radar.

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

An EF-0 tornado briefly touched down near Parrish in Manatee County as a developing thunderstorm interacted with intersecting sea breeze and convective outflow boundaries resulting in a brief spin-up. Elsewhere, easterly sea breeze afternoon convection produced a severe wind gust near Punta Gorda in Charlotte County.

A tornado briefly touched down just west of U.S. Hwy 301, where the resident of a home along Loch Ness Gln witnessed damage to the backyard fence. The resident reported that the tornado lifted shortly thereafter, while another area resident witnessed debris being lofted in an open field just to the north prior to the tornado lifting. No additional damage or reports were received.

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

1 minute of warning. NWS TBW issued a tornado warning for this county at 21:36 UTC, 1 minute before the tornado touched down, in force until 22:00 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 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.

St Petersburg (SPG), 26 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 10 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 21:36 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

2 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.