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EF0 tornado in Manatee County, Florida

Tornado May 26, 2026 · Manatee County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$1K

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 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.

The wider storm

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.

Began near Parrish (27.6123, -82.4225).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1338401. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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