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EF0 tornado in Jefferson County, Florida

Tornado February 4, 2024 · Jefferson County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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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 brief tornado touched down along I-10 just west of U.S. Highway 319 damaging trees along either side of the interstate. The tornado appears to have been short-lived with a survey team finding no additional damage on surrounding roads. A tornadic debris signature was briefly evident on KTLH radar. The tornado was rated EF0 with peak winds estimated at 80 mph.

The wider storm

A mesoscale area of low pressure rapidly deepened across the northern Gulf and moved northward into the tri-state area. Pressures dropped to 991 mb as it moved from near Saint George Island into the Big Bend. As a result of this rapid deepening, very strong non-thunderstorm wind gusts impacted the Franklin and Wakulla county coasts. A 64 mph gust was measured on Dog Island with numerous other wind gusts of 50-60 mph measured at mesonet sites along the Franklin and Wakulla county coasts. There were power outages as a result of these strong winds. In addition, a brief tornado occurred in Jefferson county.

Began near Drifton (30.4776, -83.9058).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1160269. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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