{"id":285319,"date":"2026-05-26T22:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285319\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:34:12","slug":"tornado-briefly-touches-down-in-hillsborough-county-national-weather-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285319\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Briefly Touches Down In Hillsborough County: National Weather Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOWN \u2018N\u2019 COUNTRY, FL \u2014 A tornado briefly touched down in the Tampa area during Sunday evening\u2019s band of storms that moved across the region. <\/p>\n<p>A developing thunderstorm produced an EF-0 waterspout that moved onshore in the Villages of Bayport community in the Town \u2018N\u2019 Country area at 6:58 p.m., the National Weather Service <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSTampaBay\/status\/2058953828792148287?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted to X<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A tornado&#8217;s damage intensity is often rated on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/oun\/efscale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Enhanced Fujita Scale<\/a>, according to the NWS. Their rating is based on estimated wind speeds and related damage, with the lowest being an EF-0 with three-second gusts of 65 to 85 mph and the strongest being an EF-5 with gusts more than 200 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s tornado, which was over by 7:01 p.m., had a maximum wind of 79 mph, NWS said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust before the tornado formed, thunderstorm convergence <\/p>\n<p>was taking place along the FL west coast as sea breeze boundaries<\/p>\n<p>collided. Several thunderstorms developed along a line extending <\/p>\n<p>from Sarasota Bay, through Manatee County, and into Tampa Bay,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/mesonet.agron.iastate.edu\/wx\/afos\/p.php?pil=PNSTBW&amp;e=202605251633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to an NWS report<\/a>. \u201cThe northernmost cell along this line developed over Old Tampa Bay, just west of Tampa International Airport near Rocky Point. This thunderstorm remained on one of the boundaries, and briefly developed a shallow mesocyclone that extended to around [5,000 feet]. This would go on to produce the brief waterspout that would move onshore before quickly diminishing as the cell moved off the boundary and became outflow dominant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tornado was 75 yards wide and traveled .36 miles after touching down, NWS said. <\/p>\n<p>The tornado damaged the pool cage at a home in the area and caused small debris to fly around, the agency said. <\/p>\n<p>Residents in the neighborhood also shared images of a few additional structures that sustained minor damage. <\/p>\n<p>A large tree was also blown over, the report said. <\/p>\n<p>See Also: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN \u2018N\u2019 COUNTRY, FL \u2014 A tornado briefly touched down in the Tampa area during Sunday evening\u2019s band&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-285319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285319","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=285319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}