{"id":380145,"date":"2026-08-24T23:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380145\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:24:11","slug":"ef-0-tornado-touches-down-in-port-st-lucie-leaving-2-mile-path-of-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380145\/","title":{"rendered":"EF-0 tornado touches down in Port St. Lucie, leaving 2-mile path of damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-b993be58=\"\"\/>       <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. &#8211; Residents in Port St. Lucie are recovering after an EF-0 tornado touched down Sunday evening, leaving destruction in its wake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The circulation began as a waterspout before developing into a tornado and moving 2.1 miles throughout the city, the National Weather Service reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Watch: Waterspout develops in Port St. Lucie  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Video obtained by FOX Weather showed a waterspout developing near Jessica Clinton Park in Port St. Lucie, Sunday afternoon. The waterspout touched down as an EF-0 tornado.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udf2a\ufe0fFLORIDA SPIN: Watch this waterspout captured by a viewer in Jessica Clinton Park in Port St. Lucie, Florida, on Sunday. The National Weather Service surveyed the damage and found that it did come ashore as a weak tornado.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0HPlDmMRyO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/0HPlDmMRyO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX Weather (@foxweather)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/foxweather\/status\/2091963755685187784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 24, 2026<\/a> Size, speeds of the tornado <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The National Weather Service reported an EF-0 tornado touched down in Port St. Lucie on the evening of Aug. 23 \u2013 reaching maximum wind gusts between 65 and 75 mph.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the NWS, the formation began near SE Kitchen Cove Lane and SE Morningside Boulevard at 6:10 p.m. and ended near SE Quay Street and SE Cody Place at 6:25 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The track length was 2.1 miles and the maximum tornado width was 200 yards, the NWS reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Due to the 65 to 75 mph winds, the circulation was classified as an EF-0 tornado.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wofl_tornado-destruction.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">An EF-0 tornado touched down in Port St. Lucie on Aug. 23, 2026.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>  Residents pick up the pieces <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A resident reported seeing debris building in the air in the distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He managed to grab his dog and quickly rushed into the bedroom before the tornado hit, he told WPTV&#8217;s Zitlali Solache.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Though no injuries were reported, he was left with debris in his pool and outdoor furniture overturned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story was gathered from the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida News<\/a> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. &#8211; Residents in Port St. Lucie are recovering after an EF-0 tornado touched down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[47,115,171,173,172,628],"class_list":["post-380145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380145","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=380145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}