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EF2 tornado in Flagler County, Florida

Tornado October 12, 2023 · Flagler County, Florida

EF2
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

The short-lived EF-2 tornado initially touched down near the Pine Lake Apartment complex, near the intersection of Belle Terre Pkwy and Pine Lakes Pkwy. The tornado traveled northeast through the B section of Palm Coast before dissipating near I-95. Several houses sustained significant roof damage in the path, particularly the home along Baltimore Lane which suffered complete destruction of its roof. A minivan was also flipped onto its side and moved from the driveway onto the road along Birchwood Drive. Several screened lanai enclosures, sheds and fences were significantly damaged or destroyed. Several trees were snapped and powerlines were downed.

The wider storm

A surface low moved across north-Florida during the early morning hours as a warm front lifted up from central FL. Strong effective shear combined with marginal surface-based instability near the lifting warm front and surface low enabled rotating mini-supercells to form. Toward sunrise, enough low-level instability nosed inland from the Atlantic coast across Flagler County to support a couple of tornado touchdowns. Locally heavy rainfall occurred across northeast Florida, generally south of the I-10 corridor and toward the Atlantic coast.

Began near Indian Trails (29.5678, -81.2512).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1140609. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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