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EF1 tornado in Escambia County, Florida

Tornado April 10, 2024 · Escambia County, Florida

EF1
Rating
2.3 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

Tornado began along Pine Forest Rd and quickly tracked northeast towards Hillcrest Ave. Numerous very large generational live oaks were uprooted with a couple snapped trunks. One of the live oaks fell on a home causing significant damage to the home, but no injuries. The tornado continued northeast with a clear convergence track and several more uprooted hardwoods. Three mobile homes were crushed by uprooted trees along cycle drive before the tornado passed over Pine Forrest High School.The tornado may have been intermittent and discontinous during this path before damage was found near Kyle Dr. and Rolling hills rd where numerous hard and softwoods were uprooted and snapped including several significant hardwood snaps. This is where the highest damage occured before traveling and dissipating somehwere near I10.

The wider storm

A severe line of thunderstorms moved across the Gulf Coast during the day. This line of storms produced large and damaging winds along with a couple of tornadoes.

Began near Belleview (30.4800, -87.3100).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1177855. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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