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EF0 tornado in Pinellas County, Florida

Tornado January 9, 2024 · Pinellas County, Florida

EF0
Rating
0.0 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 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 EF-0 tornado with maximum estimated winds of around 80 mph produced minor roof damage to a structure in Saint Petersburg just north of 18th Avenue between 5th and 6th Street. Just west of the building were parked cars, trees, and a telephone pole with no damage. However, roof covering material was found deposited in this area. No other visible damage could be found in the vicinity.

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 Saint Petersburg Ports Site (27.7528, -82.6401).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Hillsborough County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1149965. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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