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EF0 tornado in Monroe County, Florida

Tornado January 8, 2016 · Monroe County, Florida

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
20 yd
Path width
$2K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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 waterspout was observed as a condensation funnel cloud over a marine basin approximately 630 am EST north of Key Colony Beach and just west of the Coco Plum Drive causeway. The waterspout was observed crossing the causeway as a tornado at a seafood distribution business damaging a metal overhang. Tarps and canvas coverings on vessels docked in the adjacent marina were partially or completely removed, with a few torn. No structural damage to buildings or vessels was observed. The tornado exited the causeway as a waterspout and dissipated very shortly thereafter.

The wider storm

A waterspout associated with a developing rain shower moved northeast and made landfall as a tornado over a causeway in the Coco Plum section of the City of Marathon, Florida. Minor damage resulted as the tornado exited the causeway and dissipated as a waterspout.

Began near Key Colony Beach (24.7315, -81.0139).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 618069. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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