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EF0 tornado in Miami-dade County, Florida

Tornado October 28, 2017 · Miami-dade County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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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 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

Tornado touched down at the shopping center near the corner of Bird Road and SW 92nd Avenue in Westchester. Here it broke off large tree limbs in the parking lot which, fell on a car and damaged it windshield. The tornado then moved west-northwest over Bird Bowl Shopping Center, where high end EF-0 damage was observed. The front window of a store was broken and peeling off part of the roof. This allowed water to enter a meeting room and mechanical room. A large dumpster was also moved behind the building. Power lines, trees and fences were downed along SW 39th Street between SW 92nd and SW 94th Avenues. The tornado then briefly lifted, touching down again at SW 36th Street and 95th Avenue where it downed power lines and fences, broke large tree limbs, and caused minor roof and siding damage to homes. The tornado lifted before reaching SW 97th Avenue.

The wider storm

Tropical Storm Philippe was a very disorganized storm as it moved across the Florida Straits on October 28th, making landfall in extreme South Florida along the Florida Bay on October 29th as a minimal tropical storm with a lowest central pressure of 1000 mb. The central pressure of Philippe later deepened to 997 mb east of Florida on October 29th.

The storm brought widespread rainfall across all of South Florida, with average amounts of 2 to 4 inches across the region. A higher swath of 4 to 8 inches with isolated 10 to 11 inches was recorded across northern Broward and southern Palm Beach counties, mainly along the coast from Fort Lauderdale northward. Localized roadway flooding was reported with this activity.

The wind impacts of Philippe were limited to the east coast of South Florida. While no locations on land experienced sustained tropical storm force winds, a few locations across Miami-Dade and Broward counties did see gusts to tropical storm force during the overnight hours of October 28th into October 29th. These gusts led to reports of minor tree damage, mainly in Miami-Dade County.

Three tornadoes also occurred with the passage of Philippe.

Began near Westwood Lakes (25.7333, -80.3439).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 724213. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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