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EF0 tornado in De Soto County, Florida

Tornado July 21, 2025 · De Soto County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A brief landspout developed as a sea breeze boundary interacted with additional thunderstorm boundaries. Emergency management assessment of the affected area indicated minor damage to a couple of homes along with a downed power pole near the intersection of Marco Avenue and Beard Street in DeSoto county. Winds were estimated up to around 65 mph with a path length of less than a quarter of a mile.

The wider storm

Weak sea breeze flow over the area resulted in the interaction of multiple afternoon sea breeze and outflow-enhanced boundaries that favored the brief spin-up of landspout near Nocatee in DeSoto County.

Began near Nocatee (27.1331, -81.8855).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1282907. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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