EF0 tornado, Venice, Florida, June 1, 2020

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

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

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   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

EF0

Date

June 1, 2020

Touchdown

5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)

Lifted

5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)

On the ground

4 minutes

Path length

0.6 miles (1.0 km)

Path width

75 yards (69 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Sarasota County

Touchdown point

27.108, -82.416

Lift-off point

27.099, -82.415

Record number

2006011539-01

A brief tornado formed just behind a gust front as a new storm developed above the gust front and tilted the horizontal rotation into the vertical.

A short lived tornado touched down near Wellfield Park and crossed E Venice Ave before pushing through a Publix across the street.

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

NWS Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Jun 1, 2:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

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In the hours before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tampa Bay Area Ruskin FL
521 PM EDT Mon Jun 1 2020

FLZ155-160-255-012145-
Inland Manatee FL-Coastal Manatee FL-Coastal Sarasota FL-
521 PM EDT Mon Jun 1 2020

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL MANATEE AND
NORTHWESTERN SARASOTA COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM EDT...

At 521 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Sarasota Bradenton Airport, or near Sarasota, moving west at 15 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Sarasota, Bradenton, Palmetto, Anna Maria, Ellenton, Sarasota
Springs, South Gate Ridge, Saint Armands Key, North Sarasota,
Sarasota Bradenton Airport, West Samoset, Southgate, Ridge Wood
Heights, South Bradenton, South Sarasota, West Bradenton, Kensington
Park, The Meadows, Memphis and Holmes Beach.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

&&

LAT...LON 2753 8249 2752 8250 2751 8249 2752 8249
      2728 8247 2727 8262 2756 8278
TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 096DEG 12KT 2741 8259

TBW

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
528 PM EDT MON JUN 1 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0514 PM     TSTM WND GST     1 S WHITFIELD           27.40N 82.57W
06/01/2020  M56 MPH          MANATEE            FL   ASOS

            ASOS STATION KSRQ SARASOTA BRADENT.

&&

Venice (VNC), 4 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 21:40 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.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2020 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.