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F2 tornado in Lake County, Florida

Tornado March 13, 1993 · Lake County, Florida

F2
Rating
30.0 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
1
Death
60
Injuries
$5.0M
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 small fast-moving tornado touched down near Howey-in-the-Hills. It moved northeast over Little Lake Harris and then over Lake Dora before striking Mt. Dora. It continued northeast exiting the county near Highway 44, three miles east of Forrest City. A 5-month old baby boy was killed in a mobile home 10 miles northeast of Mt. Dora at 0050 EST. The mobile home was completely destroyed and two adults in it were seriously injured. In all 13 homes were completely destroyed, 80 suffered major damage and 266 reported minor damage. (M00M)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10320155. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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