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EF1 tornado in Pasco County, Florida

Tornado December 15, 2022 · Pasco County, Florida

EF1

Rating

10.3 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Pasco County → Hernando County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

NWS survey determined that an EF-1 tornado touched down in

extreme northern Pasco County south of Masaryktown then moved

into Hernando County before dissipating a few miles west of

Interstate 75. Primary damage was near beginning of track where a

home suffered roof damage. Elsewhere, most damage consisted of

snapped or uprooted trees as the tornado tracked mostly over

forested area.

The wider storm

A squall line ahead of a strong cold front produced damaging winds and 2 tornadoes across West Central Florida.

Began near Loyce (28.4310, -82.4729).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Pinellas County EF0 Sarasota County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1063849. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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