F0 tornado — Orange County, Florida

F0 tornado in Orange County, Florida

Tornado November 7, 2006 · Orange County, Florida

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$40K

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 F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

An F0 tornado touched down in Orlando just east of Lake Baldwin damaging roofs and windows of 5 apartment buildings. The tornado skipped east about a mile into Winter Park, damaging roofs on another apartment and three houses. A large cab-over truck was overturned.

The wider storm

A small-scale area of low pressure, referred to as a mesolow, formed over the Gulf of Mexico along a cold front which was moving into central Florida. The center of this feature was accompanied by a small band of showers and lightning storms as it moved onshore near the mouth of Tampa Bay. These storms moved rapidly northeast at 35 to 40 mph crossing the Kissimmee River into northwestern Osceola County. With the mesolow increasing, significant rotation was noted on doppler radar as the storms moved through northwestern Orange County and then into Seminole County.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 6488. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F0 tornado in Orange County, Florida

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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