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EF0 tornado in Suwannee County, Florida

Tornado April 13, 2020 · Suwannee County, Florida

EF0

Rating

3.1 mi

Path length

175 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 175 yards (0.10 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

An EF0 tornado with peak winds near 75 mph touched down near the Farmer's Coop in Live Oak. The tornado tracked NE with spotty damage (lifting up and touching back down) before finally lifting on the NE side of town south of the WalMart near I-10 along Highway 129. The tornado damaged three buildings near Goldkist Blvd and partially peeled back the roof of the Farmer's Coop Building. Additional wind damage occurred near Ferry Road and Houston Ave. Chicken houses were damaged.

The wider storm

A pre-frontal squall line with embedded supercells will moved across interior southeast Georgia during the early morning hours and reached the Suwannee Valley just before daybreak. Very strong shear and instability phased across SE GA during the morning hours where there were supercells, one that produced two tornado touchdowns. The pre-frontal line slowed down and gradually weakened as it moved into NE Florida into the afternoon, but severe storms continued to be possible due to weakening dynamics and remaining surface based instability.

Began near Live Oak Suwane Arpt (30.3100, -83.0100).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 877368. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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