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EF0 tornado in Baker County, Florida

Tornado March 7, 2008 · Baker County, Florida

EF0
Rating
6.7 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
1
Injury

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Baker County → Charlton County, Georgia; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 tornado, which was spanned by the same from mesocyclone which moved through Lake City earlier in the day, moved through northeastern Baker County. One brick residence was completely destroyed at 11456 O. C. Horne Road, in Sanderson and a second residence at 20192 Golden Grass Farms Road had tin roof blown. The tornado continued toward the St Marys River but lifted prior to reaching the river. An additional touchdown occurred in Charlton County, Georgia.

The wider storm

A squall line with severe weather and several tornadoes moved across north Florida and southeast Georgia.

Began near Taylor (30.4216, -82.2323).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Columbia County 2 deadEF0 Nassau CountyEF0 Suwannee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 74557. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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