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EF0 tornado in Hillsborough County, Florida

Tornado February 24, 2016 · Hillsborough County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.9 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

A brief tornado moved through an open field near the Mosaic Phosphate Facility near Fort Lonesome.

The wider storm

A strong area of low pressure pushing through the Deep South helped guide a cold front through the region on the 24th. The front spawned numerous strong to severe storms across the area some of which produced tornadoes.

Began near Fort Lonesome (27.6500, -82.0600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Manatee County EF1 Charlotte County EF0 Charlotte County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 613908. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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