Tornadoes · United States · Florida · 2024

EF0 tornado, Piedmont, Florida, June 6, 2024

Name: EF0 tornado, Piedmont, Florida, June 6, 2024
Start: 2024-06-06T23:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-06-06T23:01:00.000Z
Location: Piedmont, Florida

This EF0 tornado ran 0.0 miles across Orange County on June 6, 2024, touching down at 7:00 PM EDT and reaching 5 yards wide. It killed nobody.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
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.
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.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
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.
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.

The record

Rating: EF0
Date: June 6, 2024
Touchdown: 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
Lifted: 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
On the ground: 1 minutes
Path length: 0.0 miles (0.0 km)
Path width: 5 yards (5 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Orange County
Touchdown point: 28.630, -81.450
Lift-off point: 28.630, -81.450
Record number: 2406061700-01

What the Weather Service recorded

Strong to Severe storms produced wind damage, severe hail, and led to one fatality over interior east central Florida.

DOT cameras show a likely landspout with lofted dust along FL-414 at the intersection of US-441. No damage was reported.

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

The warnings

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
22:38 UTC	23:15 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB
22:59 UTC	23:30 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB
23:13 UTC	23:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	MLB
23:26 UTC	00:00 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB
23:48 UTC	02:15 UTC	Flood Advisory	MLB

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 forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 20:00 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 air that afternoon

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.

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), 12:00Z

11.0 hours before the tornado, 94 km from the path. June 6, 2024.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1568 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 3624 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0
0-3 km lapse rate: 5.5 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), 00:00Z

1.0 hours after it, 94 km from the path. June 7, 2024.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 4477 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1339 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -2.5
0-3 km lapse rate: 6.6 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 22:58 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.

What was reported nearby

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

Time (UTC)	Report	Where	County	Remark
22:48 UTC	HAIL 1	2 W Alligator Lake	Osceola, FL	[delayed report] public reports quarter size hail near St Cloud.
22:49 UTC	LIGHTNING	3 Nnw Magic Kingdom	Orange, FL	* 1 FATAL * PRELIMINARY*A tree fell onto a car traveling southbound on Reams Rd. near Summerlake Park Blvd. in Winter Garden. A 14-year-old female who was in the back seat at the time was extricated from the back
22:50 UTC	HAIL 1.75	2 Ssw Narcoossee	Osceola, FL	Spotter reports golf ball sized hail near St Cloud.
22:54 UTC	HAIL 1	2 Sse Saint Cloud	Osceola, FL	Spotter reported quarter size hail south of St Cloud.
22:56 UTC	TSTM WND GST 58	1 Sw Orlando Internatio	Orange, FL	The ASOS at the Orlando International Airport measured a wind gust of 58MPH/50KTS from the south-southeast. Corrected event type.
22:56 UTC	NON-TSTM WND GST 58	1 Sw Orlando Internatio	Orange, FL	[delayed report] The ASOS at the Orlando International Airport measured a wind gust of 58MPH/50KTS from the south-southeast.
22:58 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	2 Sw Azalea Park	Orange, FL	[delayed report] Trained spotter reports multiple large tree branches down with at least one falling on a van on/near Lido and Nadine Sts, just S of Orlando Executive Airport. Time estimated with radar data.
23:00 UTC	LANDSPOUT	Piedmont	Orange, FL	[delayed report] DOT cameras show a likely landspout with lofted dust along FL-414 at the intersection of US-441. No damage has been reported. KMLB Radar indicates little rotation at the location of the report, but an ou
23:10 UTC	TSTM WND GST 51	1 Ne Azalea Park	Orange, FL	Public reports a 51 mph wind gust near Azalea Park in Orange County.
23:12 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	1 Nne Fern Park	Seminole, FL	Corrects previous tstm wnd dmg report from 1 NNE Fern Park. [delayed report] Gas station awning collapsed at the 7-Eleven gas station at the intersection of FL-436 and Howell Branch Rd. Time estimated with radar data. Ne
23:12 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	2 Nw Goldenrod	Seminole, FL	[delayed report] Gas station awning collapsed at the 7-Eleven gas station at the intersection of FL-436 and Howell Branch Rd. Time estimated with radar data. Replaces previous LSR at US-17/92 and FL-436.
23:13 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	1 Wnw Winter Park	Orange, FL	[dalayed report] Photo received of a large tree branch downed near the corner of Lake and Orlando Ave in Maitland.
23:16 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	1 Nne Fern Park	Seminole, FL	[delayed report] Gas station awning collapsed at the 7-Eleven gas station at the intersection of FL-436 and US-17/92. Time estimated with radar data.
23:30 UTC	FUNNEL CLOUD	1 Ese Fairview Shores	Orange, FL	[delayed report] Multiple photos on social media of a funnel cloud near I-4 just north of Downtown Orlando. Time estimated with radar data.
23:39 UTC	TSTM WND GST 47	2 Sse Midway	Seminole, FL	The ASOS at the Sanford International Airport measured a wind gust of 47MPH/41KTS from the southwest. Corrected event type.
23:39 UTC	NON-TSTM WND GST 47	2 Sse Midway	Seminole, FL	[delayed report] The ASOS at the Sanford International Airport measured a wind gust of 47MPH/41KTS from the southwest.
00:00 UTC	FLOOD	1 Ese Casselberry	Seminole, FL	Minor street flooding reported on Brittany Cir in Casselberry.
01:30 UTC	RAIN 4.5	1 Nne Goldenrod	Seminole, FL	URBANET station in Goldenrod reports 4.5 inches of rain through 930 pm.

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

This ground now

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What this means

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.

Sources

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