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EF0 tornado in Suwannee County, Florida

Tornado March 7, 2008 · Suwannee County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.0 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Emergency Management received reports of trees down and an old shed blow into the trees off County Road 137. This report was received by emergency management at 1002 a.m. EST. The mesocyclone which spawned this tornado was tracked through Taylor and Lafayette counties and later spanned tornadoes in Columbia, Baker, Charlton, and Nassau counties.

The wider storm

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

Began near Wellborn (30.1787, -82.8258).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Columbia County 2 dead EF1 Baker County EF0 Nassau County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 74594. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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