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F2 tornado in Levy County, Florida

Tornado March 12, 1993 · Levy County, Florida

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

80 yd

Path width

Deaths

Injuries

$50.0M

Damage as recorded

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 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

A tornado struck a home in which four people were asleep, pinning two of them under a fallen wall and suffocating them. Two others were injured. A nearby mobile home was destroyed killing its elderly occupant. The tornado went on to destroy or damage other mobile homes injuring five more people, and knocking down trees and power lines before dissipating. (F62P)(F05P)(M73M)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10319983. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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