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EF0 tornado in Columbia County, Florida

Tornado July 7, 2021 · Columbia County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 brief EF0 tornado touchdown occurred in an outer band of Tropical Storm Elsa during the early morning hours, and impacted the property at 369 Raven Road, south of Lake City, in Columbia county. Emergency Management conducted a storm survey and observed soft and hard wood trees snapped and broken. A back porch with a metal roof was lifted and peeled back and adjoining plywood walls collapsed. Debris was strewn across the property. Maximum peak winds were estimated at 75 mph.

The wider storm

Tropical Storm Elsa tracked NNE across the western tier of the local forecast area through the day on Wed, July 7th. The storm made landfall along the FL Big Bend coast. The main impacts from TS Elsa for the local area included 3 confirmed tornadoes, downed trees due to gusty winds, and heavy rainfall which caused river flooding. There was one loss of life due to a tree falling onto a car. Peak rainfall amount was near 7.2 inches in Alachua county and the peak recorded wind gust in a squall was 58 mph in Jekyll Island GA.

Began near Columbia (30.0568, -82.7061).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Duval County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 965195. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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