Home / Florida / Broward

EF0 tornado in Broward County, Florida

Tornado July 10, 2018 · Broward County, Florida

EF0

Rating

4.7 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 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

Multiple photos shared from broadcast media showed a tornado in western Broward County. The tornado occurred west of Griffin Road over the Everglades lasting a few minutes. There was no damage reported as it stayed over the open Everglades.

The wider storm

Abundant moisture and instability across South Florida allowed thunderstorms to develop along the east coast sea breeze in the afternoon. Sea breeze and outflow boundaries continued to allow storms to develop over the same region causing flooding in Miami-Dade County and a Tornado in Broward. These storms also produced frequent to excessive lightning causing fatalities and damage across the east coast.

Began near Miramar (25.9900, -80.5400).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 774397. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

Tornadoes near your address

See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.