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EF1 tornado in Leon County, Florida

Tornado April 23, 2020 · Leon County, Florida

EF1
Rating
10.6 mi
Path length
600 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

A tornado touched down just south of North Monroe Street and moved east into a neighborhood where there was widespread limb and tree damage. It likely then crossed over the lake and impacted Elinor Klapp Phipps park where snapped tree trunks were

observed. It produced some of the most widespread tree damage, including snapped trucks, near Ox Bottom Road before crossing Thomasville Road. It moved northeast through Killearn Estates and Killearn Acres with additional widespread tree and limb

damage and a few spots of snapped and uprooted trees. The last significant damage was additional snapped trees on Bradfordville Road. Additional tree damage was sporadic to the east of here as is likely outflow as the tornado lifted. The highest damage was rated 95 MPH due to snapped trees but the majority of the damage

was EF0 type tree damage.

The wider storm

Another in a series of strong upper level troughs pushed through the southeast states, resulting in another enhanced risk of severe storms from the Storm Prediction Center. The tri-state area was hit fairly hard again, with numerous reports of wind damage documented along with several tornadoes.

Began near Lake Jackson (30.5200, -84.3500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

6 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 890636. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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