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EF0 tornado in Sarasota County, Florida

Tornado October 11, 2023 · Sarasota County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 supercell that developed over the Gulf of Mexico and likely produced a waterspout while offshore moved ashore just after 9:30 PM EST (0230Z) between Venice and Osprey. Radar-indicated rotation weakened about 10 to 15 minutes after the storm moved ashore around 9:45 PM EST (0245Z), just after it crossed Interstate 75 east of Osprey. The storm again exhibited increasing organization and rotation just after 9:50 PM EST (0250Z) as it approached SR 72/Clark Rd while continuing north-northeast, and produced a brief EF-0 tornado just before 10:00 PM EST (0300Z) that affected a neighborhood just north of SR 72/Clark Rd on the east side of Sarasota. A metal pool cage/lanai was collapsed at one home, while a small trailer was moved several feet outside of another home. The circulation weakened shortly thereafter as the storm continued across northern Sarasota County.

The wider storm

A severe weather episode with an area of low pressure and associated cold front moving east across the Gulf of Mexico approaching the peninsula produced multiple supercell thunderstorms and likely waterspouts over the open waters before approaching the west Florida coast, where one waterspout was observed and multiple strong wind gusts were reported.

Began near Gator Creek Estates (27.2661, -82.3829).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Pinellas County EF2 Citrus County EF0 Pinellas County EF0 Pasco County EF0 Pinellas County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1143566. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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