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EF0 tornado in Miami-dade County, Florida

Tornado July 21, 2007 · Miami-dade County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

40 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

Trained storm spotter reported a tornado about 4 miles west of the intersection of Krome Avenue and Kendall Drive in unpopulated Miami-Dade County. Law enforcement confirmed the tornado, which did no damage.

The wider storm

A mid and upper level trough moving southward across Florida on July 21st destabilized the atmosphere and set the state for severe afternoon thunderstorms across Southeast Florida.

Began near Perrine Arpt (25.6800, -80.5500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 50329. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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