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EF0 tornado in Clay County, Florida

Tornado September 26, 2023 · Clay County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.4 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 witness reported a land spout that last for about 4 minutes and tracked WSW to ENE across a construction site just south of Sandridge Road near Feed Mill Road. The vortex crossed over a construction site where it lifted garbage debris and dust. Structure damage did not occur.

The wider storm

A weak surface front was near the FL-GA state-line with moist, unstable conditions south of the boundary across NE FL. Diurnally enhanced storms further intensified into the afternoon and early evening as a short-wave trough moved across the area from the west. Storm motion was slow, so locally heavy rainfall was a concern near storm mergers.

Began near Russell (30.0430, -81.7768).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Clay County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1130551. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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