EF0 Tornado — Pasco, Florida

2023-10-12 · near New Port Rw Pasco Ar, Pasco, Florida

Event narrative

A tornado-warned storm produced a very brief tornado touchdown around 1:17 AM EST (0617Z) that was captured on the doorbell camera of a home between Trinity and Odessa. Bent fence damage was observed across a pond from the street where the initial video was taken, suggesting that a very short-lived tornado occurred.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1143570. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.