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EF0 tornado in Pinellas County, Florida

Tornado February 6, 2020 · Pinellas County, Florida

EF0

Rating

9.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

Injury

$200K

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

Multiple units damaged at mobile home park in Pinellas Park. Tree fell onto a home in Seminole, trapping seven people and injuring one of them. Crane blown over onto roadway on I-275 at exit 29 in St. Petersburg. Numerous downed power lines.

The wider storm

A squall line moved southeast through the Florida Peninsula ahead of a cold front, producing damage winds across southwest and central Florida.

Began near Ulmerton (27.8645, -82.7898).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 870288. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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