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EF1 tornado in Charlotte County, Florida

Tornado January 16, 2022 · Charlotte County, Florida

EF1
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$150K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Port Charlotte tornado. Tornado briefly touched down in the Village of Holiday Lake near Port Charlotte with peak winds estimated around 100 mph. This tornado was produced by the parent thunderstorm that earlier produced the Placida/Gasparilla tornado. Four homes were deemed unsafe/destroyed; two with major damage, and two with minor damage. Roof and carports had major damage or were destroyed. No injuries or deaths reported. Damage estimates totaled around $150 thousand USD.

The wider storm

A strong cold front and line of storms moved across central and southwest Florida during the early morning producing multiple tornadoes and strong straight line wind gusts.

Began near Charlotte Beach (26.9185, -82.2206).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Lee CountyEF1 Charlotte CountyEF0 Lee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 995979. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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