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F0 tornado in Santa Rosa and Okaloosa County, Florida

Tornado October 4, 1995 · Santa Rosa and Okaloosa County, Florida

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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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 F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Several Trees and power lines were blown down and four homes had shingles blown off in the north parts of Santa Rosa and Okaloosa Counties around the center of Opal. Several brief touchdowns of tornados were observed in McLellan in Santa Rosa County and near Blackman and Oak Grove in Okaloosa County.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10319796. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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