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EF0 tornado in Pinellas County, Florida

Tornado April 15, 2018 · Pinellas County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$20K

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 narrow track of damage was found along the path of a radar indicated tornado signature, indicating a brief touch down. The storm had previously produced a waterspout that was witnessed near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. A large oak tree was knocked down on a house near the intersection of 14th Avenue South and 44th Street South. Another Large tree was slit, falling on a house near 11th Avenue South and 43rd Street south.

The wider storm

A strong squall line moved into the west coast of Florida ahead of a fast moving cold front. Some of the stronger storms produced severe wind gusts, and one waterspout came onshore as a brief lived tornado.

Began near Gulfport (27.7567, -82.6931).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 743340. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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