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EF0 tornado in Sumter County, Florida

Tornado January 25, 2011 · Sumter County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.9 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

The public took a picture of a tornado in an open field. There was no damage.

The wider storm

A low pressure system over the northeast Gulf of Mexico moved northeast across northern Florida and sent a squall line through the area. The thunderstorms brought damaging winds, large hail, minor flooding and a few weak tornadoes.

Began near Royal (28.8730, -82.0320).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Manatee County EF0 Hardee County EF0 Hardee County EF0 Lee County EF0 Highlands County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 280736. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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