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EF0 tornado in Jackson County, Florida

Tornado November 17, 2014 · Jackson County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Three mobile homes were damaged by a brief EF0 tornado near Grand Ridge. Monetary damage was estimated.

The wider storm

A strong upper level trough and surface cold front moved through the region, bringing a round of severe weather across the area. Isolated supercells developed ahead of the main squall line, and one produced an EF2 tornado in Florida which was the longest continuous damage path in Florida since the Central Florida outbreak of February 1, 2007.

Began near Grand Ridge (30.6990, -85.0191).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Calhoun County EF1 Liberty County EF0 Bay County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 547716. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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