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EF0 tornado in Wakulla County, Florida

Tornado May 6, 2022 · Wakulla County, Florida

EF0

Rating

2.5 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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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

A brief tornado touched down in Wakulla County in the St. Mark's Wildlife Refuge. The tornado began just west of Lighthouse Road, tracked across Lighthouse Road where it downed a pine tree, and continued southeast. In total, the tornado was on the ground for 2.5 miles. A well defined TDS (Tornadic Debris Signature) was evident on dual-pol radar.

The wider storm

A late season cold front brought a round of strong to severe storms across the area. Two brief tornadoes occurred, one in Perry and the other in the St Marks Wildlife Refuge.

Began near Port Leon (30.1135, -84.1584).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Taylor County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1025885. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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