EF0 tornado — Citrus County, Florida

EF0 tornado in Citrus County, Florida

Tornado June 23, 2009 · Citrus County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 tornado touched down in the Castle Lake Mobile Home Park and the Stoneridge Landing Mobile Home Park, causing damage ranging from minor to severe to an estimated 50 mobile homes. The severe damage occurred to roofs and carports. In addition, 50 trees around the parks had the tops sheared off or twisted requiring removal of the trees. Winds were estimated at 85mph.

The wider storm

A frontal boundary gradually settled across the area on the 23rd and 24th. The energy associated with the boundary combined with warm afternoon temperatures to produce scattered thunderstorms mainly along and ahead of the boundary. Several thunderstorms produced large hail, strong damaging winds and two tornadoes.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 184506. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Citrus County, Florida

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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