F0 tornado, Navarre, Florida, June 11, 2005

1. F040 to 72 mphthis tornado

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. F173 to 112 mph

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. F2113 to 157 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. F3158 to 206 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. F4207 to 260 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. F5261 to 318 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

F0

Date

June 11, 2005

Touchdown

2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)

Path length

0.1 miles (0.2 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$3,000

County

Santa Rosa County

Touchdown point

30.400, -86.870

Lift-off point

30.400, -86.870

Record number

174

As Tropical Storm Arlene moved ashore, a weak tornado briefly touched down near Navarre. The weak tornado was on the ground briefly and only caused minor damage. A fire department near the touchdown measured 60 mph wind gusts.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 16:50 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Jun 11, 11:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1150 AM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005

.SHORT TERM...HAVE UPDATED CURRENT ZONE PACKAGE TO CANCEL WIND
ADVISORY FOR THE INLAND AL COUNTIES AND TO CANCEL FLOOD WATCH FOR
ALL COUNTIES IN THE CWFA.

&&

.MARINE...UPDATED CURRENT MARINE PACKAGE TO CANCEL SMALL CRAFT
ADVISORY FOR MOBILE BAY. WILL CONTINUE WITH SCAS FOR THE OFFSHORE
WATERS THROUGH SUNRISE DUE TO HIGH SEAS GENERATED FROM ARLENE SLOWLY
SUBSIDING THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT.

.MOB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AL...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GMZ650-670.

FL...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GMZ655-675.

MS...NONE.

&&

/32 ESBENSEN

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
600 AM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005

ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-111700-
BALDWIN COASTAL-BALDWIN INLAND-BUTLER-CHOCTAW-CLARKE-CONECUH-
COVINGTON-CRENSHAW-ESCAMBIA-ESCAMBIA COASTAL-ESCAMBIA INLAND-GEORGE-
GREENE-MOBILE COASTAL-MOBILE INLAND-MONROE-OKALOOSA COASTAL-
OKALOOSA INLAND-PERRY-SANTA ROSA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA INLAND-STONE-
WASHINGTON-WAYNE-WILCOX-
600 AM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI AND THE EXTREME WESTERN PORTION OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

TROPICAL STORM ARLENE WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA TODAY...WITH THE
CIRCULATION CENTER EXPECTED TO MOVE ONSHORE OVER THE MOUTH OF MOBILE
BAY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...WITH COASTAL FLOODING AND SOME WIND
DAMAGE POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH AN ISOLATED TORNADO.

AS ARLENE...A HIGH END TROPICAL STORM...CROSSES THE MISSISSIPPI...
ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE WATERS TO COME ONSHORE OVER
THE MOUTH OF MOBILE TODAY...IT MAY...MAY...STRENGTHEN TO A LOW END
CATEGORY 1 HURRICANE...BUT IS NOT EXPECTED TO ORGANIZE ANY FURTHER.
WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN TO THE 50 TO 65 KNOT...58 TO 75
MPH...RANGE BEFORE COMING ONSHORE. WITH MOVING OF THE PATH OF ARLENE
TO THE WEST WITH THE 4 AM HURRICANE CENTER ISSUANCE...THE EFFECTS OF
ARLENE WILL MOVE WESTWARD...WITH DAUPHIN ISLAND AND POINTS WEST
ALONG THE ALABAMA AND WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE COAST SEEING A SURGE
OF 3.5 TO 5.5 FEET. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE OVER THE
AREAS AS THE CENTER OF ARLENE MOVES CLOSER TO SHORE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

WITH ARLENE CONTINUING TOWARDS THE NORTHEASTERN US...HIGH PRESSURE
WILL TAKE OVER. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS WILL LIKELY BE
NEEDED TODAY INTO TONIGHT.

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 19:28 UTC.

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23 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

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