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EF0 tornado in Lee County, Florida

Tornado January 16, 2022 · Lee County, Florida

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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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 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

Cape Coral tornado. Brief tornado near Cape Coral was captured on a home doorbell camera. No significant damage was reported and the tornado was rated as an EF-0 with peak winds estimated around 65 mph. No injuries or deaths reported.

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 Cape Coral (26.6200, -82.0000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Lee County EF1 Charlotte County EF1 Charlotte County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 996001. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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