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EF0 tornado in Liberty County, Florida

Tornado November 17, 2014 · Liberty County, Florida

EF0

Rating

16.5 mi

Whole path

420 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Liberty County → Gadsden County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 420 yards (0.24 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

This is a continuation of the Calhoun County tornado. The tornado then moved through northwest Liberty County. We were able to determine it was a continuous damage path as there was damage noted along all of the major roadways that intersected the radar rotation track. The damage in Liberty County was limited to primarily trees, and this segment of the damage path was rated EF0 with maximum winds of 70-80 MPH. Measurements of the width of the damage path on several roads in Liberty County indicates that the tornado may have been at its widest at this point, though, with a maximum path width of around 420 yards. This tornado then continued in Gadsden county.

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 Bristol (30.4550, -85.0000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Calhoun County EF0 Bay County EF0 Jackson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 547726. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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