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EF0 tornado in Lee County, Florida

Tornado July 21, 2007 · Lee County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 funnel cloud was reported near Cape Coral at 10:32 AM EST and it briefly touched down as a tornado at 10:45 AM EST near Cypress Lake Drive. No damage was reported.

The wider storm

A late season cold front moved into northern Florida during the day. Minor impulses on westerly flow aloft combined with the west coast sea breeze front to produce severe thunderstorm south of Interstate 4.

Began near Cape Coral (26.5796, -81.9471).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 40171. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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