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EF0 tornado in De Soto County, Florida

Tornado May 30, 2018 · De Soto County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$10K

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 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

DeSoto County emergency management reported a barn was destroyed by a brief tornado touchdown east of Arcadia. There were 5 antique cars in the barn at the time that were not damaged.

The wider storm

Scattered showers and thunderstorms moved north through west central Florida on the morning of the 30th. One of the storms produced a brief tornado touchdown east of Arcadia, destroying a barn.

Began near Joshua (27.1902, -81.7471).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 749421. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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