EF2 tornado — Manatee County, Florida

EF2 tornado in Manatee County, Florida

Tornado January 17, 2016 · Manatee County, Florida

EF2

Rating

9.2 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

Deaths

Injuries

$150K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

The NWS Storm Survey found a single-wide mobile home destroyed and rolled over. Seven people were inside the home, two adults were killed with four injured. The tornado also destroyed a 2000 square foot barn. The damage was in a very rural, isolated area and the Manatee County Sheriffs surveyed the storm track by helicopter and found numerous trees down along the path.

The wider storm

A strong and deepening area of low pressure across the northern Gulf pushed a strong line of thunderstorms across the Florida peninsula. Numerous supercell thunderstorms were observed and a few produced strong tornadoes along and near the coast.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 609389. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF2 tornado in Manatee County, Florida

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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