{"id":283866,"date":"2026-05-25T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283866\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:17:11","slug":"tornado-in-tampa-confirmed-by-nws-survey-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283866\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado in Tampa confirmed by NWS survey team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 There was indeed a tornado in Tampa on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service&#8217;s survey team.<\/p>\n<p>NWS said a developing thunderstorm produced a waterspout that moved onshore in the Bayport neighborhood and formed an EF-0 tornado through Town &#8216;n&#8217; Country around 7 p.m. on May 24.<\/p>\n<p>According to NWS&#8217; initial reporting, it produced winds up to 79 mph, causing damage to a single pool cage, while springing debris into the air. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s path length was .36 miles, with a path width of 75 yards, per the NWS.<\/p>\n<p>There were additional structures that sustained minor damage, the NWS determined from footage sent from residents.<\/p>\n<p>NWS added &#8220;a large tree was also blown over in the community one street over from where the main damage was noted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ANNETTE.GUTIERREZ.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day crowds bring boost to Clearwater Beach businesses<\/p>\n<p>AAA says Memorial Day weekend is one of the busiest travel periods of the year, with 45 million people expected to travel nationwide. Florida is a popular destination, bringing large crowds to Clearwater.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day crowds bring boost to Clearwater Beach businesses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 There was indeed a tornado in Tampa on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[120629,120630,276,135,5910,108336,3670,137,136,7214,42512,208],"class_list":["post-283866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bayport","tag-ef-0","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tornado","tag-town-n-country","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}