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EF0 tornado in Monroe County, Florida

Tornado March 19, 2024 · Monroe County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$2K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 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 brief tornado was determined to have passed from State Road 4A through Diane Avenue and Linda Street on the northern portion of Little Torch Key. The narrow path was marked by two downed buttonwood trees, broken small and medium-sized tree branches, a destroyed plastic storage shed, and three destroyed breakaway shade canopies. No structural damage was observed. Estimated maximum winds were 65 to 70 mph.

The wider storm

A tornado was observed at Little Torch Key as rapid development of showers and thunderstorms occurred directly over the Lower and Middle Florida Keys. A cold front was approaching from the north, with the thunderstorms development over a pre-existing convergence boundary just as northerly surface winds were spreading over the Florida Keys.

Began near Big Coppit Is (24.6756, -81.3952).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1170801. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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