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EF0 tornado in Duval County, Florida

Tornado May 15, 2022 · Duval County, Florida

EF0
Rating
0.0 mi
Path length
1 yd
Path width
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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

A brief tornado was observed by NWS employees near the intersection of I-295 and I-95, just SSE of the Jacksonville International Airport. The vortex briefly touched the ground, but significant damage was not observed or reported.

The wider storm

A weak pressure pattern was across the local area with a ridge across the western Atlantic and a mid/upper level across the Carolinas to Florida panhandle with weak SW flow aloft over the local area. Mid level temps warmed, but mid level lapse rates were modest around 6.7 degC/km with surface based CAPE increasing to near 2500 J/kg in the afternoon with surface dew pts near 70 degF. Shear was not impressive, but neared 15-25 kts across NE FL in the afternoon which enabled some stronger cells to form with gusty wind, hail and weak tornado potential.

Began near Oceanway (30.4600, -81.6500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1023254. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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