Wellington, FL Tornado History — 166 Tornadoes Since 1950
How many tornadoes has Wellington, FL had?
Wellington has had 166 tornadoes on record within 25 miles since 1950, including 1 violent (EF3+) tornado.
When was the most recent tornado near Wellington?
The most recent tornado within 25 miles of Wellington was an EF0 on May 12, 2025.
When is tornado season in Wellington?
August is historically the peak month for tornadoes near Wellington, with 25 on record. Spring through early summer (April–June) generally sees the highest activity across most of the central and southern United States.
At a Glance
Recent Tornado Activity Near Wellington
The last 20 years of confirmed tornadoes within 25 miles — 48 total, averaging 2.4 per year over this window.
Tornadoes by Decade
Tornadoes by Enhanced Fujita Rating
F0–F5 ratings (pre-2007) are grouped with their EF equivalents. The Enhanced Fujita scale replaced the original Fujita scale in February 2007.
Tornadoes by Month
Have any tornadoes near Wellington been fatal?
No fatalities are on record within 25 miles of Wellington from any of the 166 tornadoes since 1950, though 82 injuries have been reported. NOAA Storm Prediction Center records.
Notable Tornadoes Near Wellington
About Tornadoes in Wellington
This overview was written August 10, 2026. The tornado counts and notable-event figures elsewhere on this page reflect the latest data and may differ from this summary.
Severe weather in Wellington builds with the warming half of the year, from spring's sea-breeze storms through the tropical months of late summer and early autumn. The village sits on flat, drained wetland terrain in western Palm Beach County, where breezes off the Atlantic collide with air drifting east from Lake Okeechobee over deeply humid subtropical ground. Those daily boundary collisions can tighten storm updrafts into brief tornadoes, while passing tropical cyclones supply another mechanism: their outer rainbands carry compact, fast-spinning cells that can drop damaging tornadoes well away from a storm's center. The NOAA Storm Prediction Center maintains the historical tornado database from which this page's event listings draw.
That tropical pathway asserted itself on October 9, 2024, when an EF3 tornado tracked 32.89 miles with a width near 457 yards, injuring 7 people and causing damage estimated at 81.45 million dollars. A separate EF2 the same October afternoon in 2024 ran 65.49 miles and produced about 16.5 million dollars in losses. An EF2 on September 28, 2022 injured 2 people along a 6.98-mile path as a hurricane moved across Florida, and another EF2 carved a 320-yard-wide swath through the area on April 29, 2023. These modern entries extend an older story: an F2 on August 8, 1983 injured 2 people, and an F1 on February 26, 1952 stands as an early local entry in the database.