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EF0 tornado in Pasco County, Florida

Tornado May 12, 2026 · Pasco County, Florida

EF0
Rating
0.7 mi
Path length
250 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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

The development of a second circulation became apparent west of Shady Hills around 20 minutes after the circulation associated with the Hudson tornado weakened, and it is estimated that a tornado touched down near Gladwin Avenue to the west of East Road

at approximately 1843 UTC (2:43 PM EDT). Damage from this tornado consisted largely of snapped tree limbs and branches, although a large tree was uprooted and downed onto a mobile home along Eden Avenue near the intersection of East Road. The tornado moved very slowly east and east-southeast while appearing to exhibit a bit of a binary interaction with the remnant circulation that produced the Hudson tornado that was located to its east, before radar indicated it likely dissipated around 1848 UTC (2:48 PM EDT), less than one mile from where it is estimated to have touched down. Maximum peak wind of 85 mph.

The wider storm

A quasi-stationary surface boundary draped west to east across the northern peninsula and an approaching upper-level disturbance created an environment of favorable shear and instability that produced 2 EF-0 tornadoes near Hudson and Shady Hills in Pasco County.

Began near Aripeka (28.4008, -82.6078).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1338349. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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