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EF0 tornado · Puerto Rico

Tornado September 13, 2012 · Lares, Puerto Rico

EF0

Rating

0.0 mi

Path length

35 yd

Path width

$30K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 35 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

A brief F0 tornado was reported at Barrio Minas in the municipality of Lares.

The wider storm

An upper level low northeast of Puerto Rico, combined with daytime heating and local effects to produced scattered to numerous showers with isolated strong thunderstorms over the western interior section of Puerto Rico.

Began near Lares (18.2800, -66.8790).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 414693. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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