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EF0 tornado in Putnam County, Florida

Tornado July 20, 2024 · Putnam County, Florida

EF0
Rating
1.5 mi
Path length
5 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 5 yards (0.00 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

Waterspout on Lake George went onto Drayton Island and became a land spout. No injuries or damage was reported. Photos from multiple viewpoints were relayed. Time was estimated by radar.

The wider storm

A prevailing SW flow combined with the river, lake and sea breezes converged east of Highway 301 in the late evening over a moist and unstable airmass. Numerous boundary mergers produced waterspouts over the St. Johns River west of Hastings, FL and over Lake George. The waterspout over Lake George shifted onto Drayton Island and became a landspout. No damages or injuries were reported. Other storms produced gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall especially across SE GA, including some localized flooding reports.

Began near Georgetown (29.3557, -81.6157).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Putnam County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1195724. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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