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EF0 tornado in Citrus County, Florida

Tornado April 20, 2020 · Citrus County, Florida

EF0
Rating
7.2 mi
Path length
35 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 35 yards (0.02 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

Video showed a waterspout moving onshore of the

coast in Homosassa, and that same area of rotation continued

along a nearly easterly path. This created a narrow damage path

starting across a mobile home park near Buzzard Point causing 7

structures with minor damage and 2 structures with major damage.

Several trees were then downed or snapped in the Homosassa

Springs Wildlife Park, and snapped power poles, a billboard

down, the sail of a gas station blown off, and one business

with major damage on US Highway 19 and Grover Cleveland

Boulevard before lifting.

The wider storm

A squall line pushed through West Central Florida on April 20th producing damaging wind gusts across the area.

Began near Homosassa Comps Site (28.7900, -82.6900).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 879116. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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