EF0 tornado, (Apf)Naples Muni Arp, Florida, August 24, 2023

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

August 24, 2023

Touchdown

4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)

Lifted

4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)

On the ground

3 minutes

Path length

0.8 miles (1.2 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$100,000

County

Collier County

Touchdown point

26.145, -81.756

Lift-off point

26.142, -81.768

Record number

2308241455-01

6 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MFL, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 80 mph.

• Multiple large branches snapped off softwood tree in front yard of 842 Roseate Dr
• Portion of roof removed and laying in front driveway/yard
• Small panel of siding and softwood tree damage at 3586 Hibiscus Ave
• Young laurel oak uprooted in Lawrence Walker Technical College west parking lot

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

A brief tornado occurred during the early evening of Thursday August 24, 2023 in Naples, Florida. This led to minor damage, primarily to cars and large trees, across just less than a mile long path. There were no reports of injuries or deaths.

A brief tornado occurred during the early evening of Thursday August |24, 2023 in Naples. The tornado was believed to have touched down near |Roseate Dr and Robin Ave where multiple large tree branches were snapped off. |The tornado then traveled SW and did some roof damage to a home on Cardinal |St. Additional minor tree and aluminum damage was observed near the |Walker Technical College. The strongest wind damage was observed in the |vicinity of the college where 9 vehicles were damaged in the parking lot. Some |of the car damage was from a falling tree, and other damage was from cars being |moved into each other by the wind. The tornado then crossed Airport Rd south |of Estey Ave before lifting. Wind speeds were mostly estimated between 50-60 mph |however the strongest winds near the technical college were estimated to be |around 80 mph, for a rating of EF-0.

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 General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:55 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 Miami radar (KAMX), 147 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 20:57 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 2023 tornado in FloridaEvery tornado in Florida since 1950Warnings in force in Florida nowThe forecast where you are

21 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.