EF1 tornado, Jax Herlong Arpt to Cambon, Florida, June 6, 2016

1. EF065 to 85 mph

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

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

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

3. EF2111 to 135 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. EF3136 to 165 mph

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

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

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

6. EF5over 200 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

EF1

Date

June 6, 2016

Touchdown

3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)

Lifted

3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)

On the ground

10 minutes

Path length

3.9 miles (6.3 km)

Path width

180 yards (165 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Duval County

Touchdown point

30.273, -81.832

Lift-off point

30.328, -81.819

Record number

1606061325-01

65 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS JAX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 100 mph.

• Fence blown down, possible early stages of mesocyclone

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

Tropical Storm Colin moved onshore the Florida Big Bend area late Monday June 6th and then tracked quickly over the local area that night. A band of heavy rainfall and strong thunderstorms moved across NE Florida on the east side of Colin during the afternoon of June 6th which produced strong tropical storm force wind gusts and subsequent wind damage including downed trees, power lines and some structural damage mainly along and east of the Highway 301 corridor in NE Florida. There was also one confirmed EF1 tornado touchdown within this squall that impacted the Westside of Jacksonville near Normandy and the Crystal Springs area. Tropical storm force wind gusts outside of thunderstorm activity started after midnight Tue morning (June 7th) across coastal locations with gusts generally between 40 and 50 mph. The heaviest rainfall amounts were observed Monday afternoon June 6th and range from 4 to 8 inches across much of NE Florida. SE Ga experienced less impacts.

The tornado touched down near Normandy Blvd and Blair Road around 3:25 pm local time. Damage in this area was minor EF0 damage with some fencing blown down and trees damaged. The vortex continued along Blair Road maintaining the same intensity until it reached Wood Dove Way. From there to Interstate 10, EF1 damage was observed. The funnel then moved across the Publix Distribution Center flipping empty trucks and then NNE to Arbee Road. As the Westside-Crystal Springs tornado dissipated, the thunderstorm rear flank downdraft moved through a neighborhood northeast of the dissipating funnel. The tornado dissipated around 3:35 pm. The rear flank downdraft contacted the ground near West Beaver Street and moved northeast through the Watershed Drive, Maple Ave, and Orme Road areas. The predominant damage was to trees with some roof damage on Maple Street. There were reports of damage to residences, businesses, and trees along the tornado path. Some homes had parts of roofs partially torn off or damaged. Maximum wind speed 100 mph.

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

5 minutes of warning. NWS JAX issued a tornado warning for this county at 19:20 UTC, 5 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 20:00 UTC.

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 16:28 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.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Jacksonville - Whitehouse (NEN), 7 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 24 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 19:22 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2016 tornado in FloridaEvery tornado in Florida since 1950Warnings in force in Florida nowThe forecast where you are

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.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.