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EF0 tornado in Pinellas County, Florida

Tornado October 12, 2023 · Pinellas County, Florida

EF0
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
15 yd
Path width
$5K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 15 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 very brief tornado was observed over the intracoastal waterway along the Belleair Beach causeway at 11:34 AM EST (1534Z). At 11:35 AM EST (1535Z), the tornado moved onshore and damaged the roof of an apartment building before dissipating.

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 Belleair Bluffs (27.9163, -82.8303).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Pinellas CountyEF2 Citrus CountyEF0 Sarasota CountyEF0 Pinellas CountyEF0 Pasco County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1143571. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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