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EF1 tornado in Duval County, Florida

Tornado June 28, 2024 · Duval County, Florida

EF1
Rating
1.4 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

An initial and brief touchdown occurred south of Beach Boulevard

where a parked vehicle on a car dealership lot was overturned and

tossed onto Beach Blvd. From there, the tornado did not maintain

contact with the ground; it skipped to the west northwest where

the supporting circulation tightened near a residential

neighborhood in the Holiday Hill area where significant damage

occurred. Primary damage in this area included several trees

snapped and downed powerlines in the area of Grove Park Boulevard

and Catalina Road East. Secondary damage to a home occurred due to

a large uprooted tree in the same area. The tornado then shifted

westward, crossing Pottsburg Creek before finally dissipating near

Tara Lane and Parental Home Road.

The wider storm

Prevailing SW flow over a moist and unstable airmass triggered strong to pulse severe storms toward the Atlantic coast where sea breeze and boundary mergers occurred.

Began near Southside Estates (30.2866, -81.5547).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1191459. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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