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EF0 tornado in Taylor County, Florida

Tornado May 6, 2022 · Taylor County, Florida

EF0
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$75K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 tornado touched down briefly in downtown Perry, FL and was on the ground for about a minute. The tornado touched down west of South Quincy St. near W. Homer J. Smith Ave. It blew over a fence and pealed back a tin roof at a tavern. It continued east northeast along E. Hampton Springs Rd pulling up a carport cover that was anchored to the ground. The tornado bent over a stop sign and snapped large branches off a tree near the intersection of S. Jefferson St. and W. Hampton Springs Rd. One of these was hurled across the intersection, breaking a window of a home. The tornado then broke or bent several large tree limbs before damaging a fence east of Orange St. The tornado lifted just east of S. Center St. This tornado was rated EF0 with max winds around 75 mph.

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 Perry (30.1114, -83.5833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1025886. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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