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EF0 tornado in Franklin County, Florida

Tornado February 25, 2013 · Franklin County, Florida

EF0
Rating
0.0 mi
Path length
20 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 tornado was spotted crossing over the St. George Island Bridge. No damage occurred.

The wider storm

A series of upper level disturbance rotating around a mean longwave trough west of the area brought copious amounts of moisture into the area. The KTAE rawinsonde sounding on the evening of February 22nd measured a PWAT value of 1.77 inches, which was the 2nd highest PWAT observed during the month of February at that location. Rainfall amounts generally between 9 and 14 inches were observed during the 5 day period between Feb 22-26 across the Tallahassee area with similar amounts across the remainder of the Florida Panhandle. This led to areas of flooding. There were also some severe storms during the early morning hours of Feb 26th. The southeast big bend saw significantly less rainfall.

Began near Eastpoint (29.6831, -84.8796).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 427247. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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