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EF0 tornado in Broward County, Florida

Tornado April 12, 2023 · Broward County, Florida

EF0
Rating
0.0 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

A weak tornadic debris signature (TDS) was noted on radar in a slow-moving thunderstorm in Broward County. There was minimal damage found in the area of the noted TDS in western Hollywood. A short-lived, small tornado likely only impacted the tree-top level. It was determined to be a low end EF-0 with estimated peak wind speed around 65 mph.

The wider storm

A nearly stationary front began to move slowly northward across South Florida on April 12th, focusing deep moisture over the region. An mid to upper level low pressure over the NW Gulf of Mexico and an upper level jet stream over the eastern Gulf of Mexico contributed to providing the necessary atmospheric forcing for areas of persistent heavy rain and strong thunderstorms across most of SE Florida.

Began near West Hollywood (26.0341, -80.1856).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Broward County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1094919. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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