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EF1 tornado in Union County, Florida

Tornado August 4, 2024 · Union County, Florida

EF1

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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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 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 produced EF1 tornado damage at 7:40 PM as it touched down

south of State road 238 by snapping the tree trunk of a large hardwood

tree. The tornado proceeded northwestward to a homes along Southwest

85th Path, overturning a travel trailer, knocking down a wooden fence,

and uprooting another hardwood tree. The tornado's last impact was

tearing off the roof of a shed along southwest 85th Path before it

lifted. The tornado was on the ground for about 1 minute and was on

the ground a distance of just under a quarter of a mile. The Tornado

had a maximum width of about 20 yards and had maximum winds up to 93

mph.

The wider storm

Hurricane Debby made landfall as a Category 1 storm along the FL Big Bend coast during the early morning of August 5, 2024. Prior to landfall, outer convective bands produced tornadoes across portions of northeast Florida on August 4th. Widespread flooding moved inland with Debby across the Suwannee River Valley and inland Southeast Georgia where flash flooding and moderate to major river flooding occurred.

Began near Providence (29.9999, -82.5064).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Columbia County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1198823. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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