EF0 tornado, Lake Monroe Lake to Enterprise, Florida, June 6, 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 6, 2020

Touchdown

8:27 PM EDT (00:27 UTC)

Lifted

8:34 PM EDT (00:34 UTC)

On the ground

7 minutes

Path length

2.0 miles (3.2 km)

Path width

200 yards (183 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Volusia County

Touchdown point

28.839, -81.261

Lift-off point

28.868, -81.260

Record number

2006061827-01

2 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MLB, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 50 mph.

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

Conditions became favorable for severe weather in central Florida due to enhanced winds aloft on the far eastern periphery of Tropical Storm Cristobal which was moving north over the central Gulf of Mexico. Scattered to numerous severe thunderstorms developed across Lake, Orange and Volusia counties producing areas of damaging winds and several tornadoes and waterspouts over inland lakes.

Numerous eyewitness reports, photographs and video were received from trained spotters and the public of a large waterspout that developed on Lake Monroe, which then came onshore briefly along the north shore of the lake as a rapidly weakening tornado. The waterspout developed on Lake Monroe at approximately 1927 LST and quickly became large, reaching an estimated maximum width of approximately 200 yards. The slow-moving waterspout then reached the north side of the lake near the 860th block of Lakeshore Drive in Enterprise at approximately 1934 LST as a rapidly weakening EF-0 tornado. The tornado dissipated between Lakeshore Drive and Jacob Brock Avenue, just east of the Florida United Methodist Children's Home and west of Broadway Street. An eyewitness near the point of dissipation, initially observed the waterspout over the lake, then described a complete lull of wind, followed by a increase of winds from the opposite direction, suddenly becoming very strong. Based on this report, along with only minor damage to trees near the lakefront, peak winds were estimated between 45 and 55 mph.

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

26 minutes of warning. NWS MLB issued a tornado warning for this county at 00:01 UTC, 26 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 00:30 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 Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:57 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.

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:26 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 2020 tornado in FloridaEvery tornado in Florida since 1950Warnings in force in Florida nowThe forecast where you are

7 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.

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