EF1 tornado, Boulogne to Boulogne Welcome Stn, Florida, April 7, 2022

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

April 7, 2022

Touchdown

2:31 AM EDT (06:31 UTC)

Lifted

2:38 AM EDT (06:38 UTC)

On the ground

7 minutes

Path length

3.2 miles (5.2 km)

Path width

30 yards (27 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Nassau County

Touchdown point

30.752, -81.964

Lift-off point

30.764, -81.911

Record number

2204070031-01

11 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 93 mph.

• Metal roof partially torn, and blown to the northwest about 20 yards.

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

A pre-frontal squall line moved across the area during the pre-dawn hours and shifted off of the local Atlantic coast during the morning, which produced an early morning tornado in Nassau County. Another wave of strong to isolated severe storms impacted the local area in the afternoon with convection that formed along the actual cold front. Non-convective gradient wind gusts were 30 to 40 mph outside of thunderstorm activity.

An EF1 tornado with peak winds of 93 mph moved northeast across northwest Nassau County during the predawn hours. Initially, EF0 wind damage included large broken tree branches occurred near the start of the track just west of Highway 301 near the town of Boulougne near the intersection of Karma Way. The tornado continued to track east-northeast toward the Little St. Marys River producing additional EF0 damage including tree damage with some likely rear-flank downdraft straight line wind damage noted along Conner Cutoff Road. The tornado reached peak EF1 intensity at is crossed the intersection of Conner Cutoff where trees were uprooted and large tree trunks were snapped. A single wide manufactured home had considerable wind damage which included the metal roof partially torn-off and lofted about 20 yards. The tornado lifted just east of Murrhee Road where EF0 damage to trees was noted in a swamp.

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

4 minutes of warning. NWS JAX issued a tornado warning for this county at 06:27 UTC, 4 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 06:42 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 05:10 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 Intl (JAX), 38 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 38 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 06:30 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 2022 tornado in FloridaEvery tornado in Florida since 1950Warnings in force in Florida nowThe forecast where you are

1 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.