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EF0 tornado in Bay County, Florida

Tornado October 27, 2025 · Bay County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 very brief tornado tracked across U.S. Highway 98, damaging fencing and signs in a new construction neighborhood. The fencing was blown from east to west across the highway. No structural damage was noted and the damage appeared consistent with an EF0 tornado with maximum winds of approximately 70 mph.

The wider storm

A strong cold front moved through the region during the early morning hours. Instability was confined to right along the coast, but a line of storms developed along the coast with one supercell ahead of the line. This storm produced two tornadoes near Mexico Beach.

Began near Davis Beach (29.9585, -85.4388).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Bay County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1293559. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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