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F2 tornado in Marion County, Florida

Tornado March 13, 1993 · Marion County, Florida

Rating

15.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$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 formed 8 miles southwest of Ocala in a wooded area. It snapped off trees before heavily damaging two hangers and destroying another at the Ocala Airport. It continued northeast snapping off numerous trees, then moved over an industrial area where it heavily damaged several storage buildings and a warehouse. It moved through a wooded area dissipating about seven miles northeast of Ocala.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10320170. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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