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EF0 tornado in St. Johns County, Florida

Tornado May 29, 2025 · St. Johns County, Florida

EF0

Rating

1.6 mi

Path length

15 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 15 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

Around 4:53 PM EDT, an EF0 tornado touched down at the Cimarrone

Golf Club in St. Johns County, FL along Seneca Dr and Sequoyah

Cir. As the tornado trekked northeastward across portions of the

golf course, it snapped large branches off softwood and hardwood

trees. The tornado overturned a storage shed and scattered its

contents before continuing across a wooded area and causing a few

trees to become slanted. The tornado emerged from the wooded area

along the St. Johns PKWY and SR-9B interchange, finally

dissipating over a retention pond along SR-9B.

The wider storm

A mid-level shortwave trough developed an MCS that lifted east- northeastward through the day and across SE GA during peak heating. Continued SW flow increased moisture levels to above average with PWATs mainly in the 1.75-2 inch range. The combination of a moist, moderately unstable airmass and additional lift from the passing shortwave enhanced convection across SE GA and along the sea breeze merger along the Atlantic

coast. SPC had a Slight Risk (level 2 of 5) for SE GA. Strong to locally severe storm occurred during the afternoon into the evening with a confirmed tornado in St. Johns County.

Began near Sampson Church (30.0788, -81.5306).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1260222. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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