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EF0 tornado in Columbia County, Florida

Tornado August 4, 2024 · Columbia County, Florida

EF0

Rating

1.4 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 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

At 7:56 pm local time, the Columbia County EM reported an observed

tornado on the ground off HWY 441 near Lake

City Airpark. Time estimated via radar and

report. At 7:57 pm, a trained spotter reported an observed tornado

crossing I-75 about 3-4 miles south of Lake

City. Time estimated via report and radar.

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 Mason (30.0500, -82.6000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Union County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1198825. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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