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EF1 tornado in Hillsborough County, Florida

Tornado January 9, 2024 · Hillsborough County, Florida

EF1

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds of 90 mph tracked across The Eagles Golf Club northwest of Westchase, from just west of Birkdale Drive, across Nine Eagles Drive, Byrnwyck Lane and Benty Way, before lifting just west of Eagle Oak Drive. The most notable structural damage observed was the detachment/collapse of several pool cages backing up to the golf course. Additional roof and tree damage was noted, however, this appeared to be associated with inflow and/or an eventual microburst with a uniform direction to the damage. Along the path, there were a couple pockets of EF-1 damage. However, most of the surveyed damage was EF-0.

The wider storm

A prefrontal squall line ahead of a cold front over the eastern Gulf of Mexico extending south from an area of low pressure moving across the southeast U.S. and Mid-Atlantic produced tornadoes in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, along with damaging straight-line winds in Sarasota County.

Began near Cosme (28.1061, -82.6458).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Pinellas County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1149963. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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