EF1 Tornado — Walton, Florida

2025-05-10 · near Eucheeanna, Walton, Florida

Event narrative

This tornado began at Sherwood Road where it snapped several small hardwood limbs. As it progressed northeast towards Red Hills Road, it continued to snap small hardwood limbs, and it also began uprooting a few hardwood trees. The tornado uprooted hardwood trees as it crossed County Highway 280 E, as well as causing minor roof damage to a small barn along Campbell Road. It continued to move northeast across Montgomery Road where it uprooted a few hardwood trees as well as snapping a few large hardwood tree limbs. Before dissipating, the tornado moved across Interstate 10, causing softwood tree damage to briefly close down the eastbound travel lanes near mile markers 90 and 91. Damage along most of the path was consistent with EF1 wind speeds around 100 mph.

Wider weather episode

Steep mid level lapse rates along with sufficient instability and deep layer shear ahead of a cold front brought a couple of rounds of showers and thunderstorms to the region. Damaging wind gusts were reported across the Florida panhandle. In addition, a couple of tornadoes were reported in Walton county and Holmes county. Flash flooding also occurred in portions of Bay and Washington counties. Rainfall amounts of 3-9 inches were measured.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1261641. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.