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EF0 tornado in Sarasota County, Florida

Tornado June 1, 2020 · Sarasota County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

A short lived tornado touched down near Wellfield Park and crossed E Venice Ave before pushing through a Publix across the street.

The wider storm

A brief tornado formed just behind a gust front as a new storm developed above the gust front and tilted the horizontal rotation into the vertical.

Began near Venice (27.1077, -82.4161).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 892120. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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