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EF1 tornado in Volusia County, Florida

Tornado February 2, 2007 · Volusia County, Florida

EF1

Rating

3.1 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$6.0M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 same mesocyclone that produced the previous tornadoes in Lake and Volusia County now moved over New Smyrna Beach. The F1 tornado first touched down east of Interstate 95 along Turnbull Bay Road and moved rapidly east where it lifted at the Intracoastal Waterway just north of New Smyrna Beach Airport. The tornado damaged roofs, car ports, garage doors and pool screens in the area. There were no injuries reported.

The wider storm

A series of powerful tornadoes swept across Sumter, Lake and Volusia counties during the early morning hours of February 2, 2007. A discontinuous swath of tornado damage was observed from near Wildwood in Sumter County to the town of Lady Lake (Lake County) to New Smyrna Beach (Volusia County). This was a distance of over 70 miles. A total of 21 fatalities occurred within Lake County. Central Florida was located in the warm sector ahead of an advancing cold front. Large scale lift was supported by a very strong jet aloft, with strong vertical shear. Instability increased overnight with temperatures and dew points increasing through the pre-dawn hours. A single long-tracked supercell thunderstorm traveled from Sumter County to the coastal waters of Volusia County during the early morning hours of February 2, 2007. Three tornadoes touched down along this track.

Began near (evb)new Smyrna Beach Airport (29.0641, -80.9890).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Lake Mack–Paisley Tornado (2007) 13 dead EF3 Lake County 8 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 19002. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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