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EF0 tornado in Hardee County, Florida

Tornado April 4, 2022 · Hardee County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$20K

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

Law enforcement relayed web cam capture of small, short-lived rope tornado. Power lines reported down in the area.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms produce a brief tornado in Hardee County and damaging hail up to the size of golf balls in parts of Highlands County.

Began near Wauchula (27.5500, -81.6998).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1012567. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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