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EF1 tornado in Martin County, Florida

Tornado June 12, 2024 · Martin County, Florida

EF1
Rating
1.7 mi
Path length
500 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 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

The tornado touched down in a wooded area to the west of US-1 around 10:37 AM, very near the Island Mall shopping plaza. The system crossed US-1 where it continued to produced a swath of mainly vegetative damage, with numerous trees felled within the parking lot of a second shopping plaza. The circulation moved east toward A1A where additional damage to softwood and hardwood trees was noted in the vicinity of Hobe Sound Elementary School.

The most notable damage was along Bridge Road just before where the road crosses the Indian River Lagoon. Here, a total of 20 to 25 large ficus trees were toppled (uprooted) as a result of wind gusts that peaked between 85 to 95 mph. The tornado moved over the Indian River Lagoon and into Jupiter Island where more trees were

felled from peak winds of 75 to 85 mph. Finally, the circulation moved into the Atlantic Ocean where it briefly became a waterspout before dissipating.

The vast majority of damage related to this tornado was confined to vegetation, most notably hardwood and softwood trees. Only minor structural damage, including a home

with torn shingles and a grocery store with limited roof damage, was noted during the survey.

The wider storm

Storms moving offshore produced a tornado in Hobe Sound.

Began near Hobe Sound (27.0590, -80.1412).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1183718. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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