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EF0 tornado in Nassau County, Florida

Tornado September 3, 2024 · Nassau County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 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

A waterspout moved onshore as a landspout on Amelia Island. There was some debris lofted near oceanfront homes, likely from the roofs, as the landspout moved inland. The location is approximated.

The wider storm

A front was stalled across NE FL with a meandering coastal low offshore of the local Atlantic coast. Above normal atmospheric moisture, warm temperatures aloft and slow storm motion produced localized heavy rainfall over a diurnally unstable airmass with waves of gusty showers moving onshore. Wind gusts with the coastal low along the local Atlantic coast increased to 40-50 mph after 8 pm on 9/3 through midnight along the Duval County FL coast.

Began near Fernandina Beach (30.6700, -81.4300).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1213508. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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