**FRIDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE**
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RELEASED A MORE DETAILED REPORT ON THE TORNADO. SCROLL DOWN BELOW THE PRELIMINARY REPORT TO VIEW IT.
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The Tallahassee office of the National Weather Service surveyed the damage from Wednesday's storms and concluded that some of it was caused by a weak (F0) tornado. Here is the NWS storm report:
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NWUS52 KTAE 101946
LSRTAE

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
246 PM EST THU DEC 10 2009

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

1205 PM TORNADO 8 NNW TALLAHASSEE 30.54N 84.33W
12/09/2009 F0 LEON FL NWS STORM SURVEY

BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST SOUTHWEST OF MILLER
LANDING ROAD ON THE NORTH SIDE OF LAKE JACKSON. THREE
LARGE TREES SNAPPED WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF SHINGLES
REMOVED FROM A HOME. MAXIMUM WINDS WITH THE TORNADO ARE
ESTIMATED AT 80 MPH...WHICH IS CONSISTENT WITH AN EF-0
TORNADO. PATH LENGTH OF THE TORNADO IS AROUND ONE HALF
MILE WITH A DAMAGE WIDTH OF 50 TO 75 YARDS.

GODSEY
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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL

...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM SURVEY CONDUCTED IN WEST CENTRAL
LEON COUNTY...
...WEAK EF-0 TORNADO CONFIRMED ALONG A PORTION OF THE STORM PATH...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SENT A SURVEY TEAM TO WEST CENTRAL LEON
COUNTY TODAY TO SURVEY STORM DAMAGE AROUND LAKE JACKSON. THIS TEAM
COVERED AN AREA FROM OLD BAINBRIDGE ROAD...JUST SOUTH OF CAPITAL
CIRCLE NW...TO JUST WEST OF THOMASVILLE ROAD NEAR THE INTERSECTION
WITH BANNERMAN ROAD. WITHIN THIS AREA...THE ONLY SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE
WAS OBSERVED AROUND THE NORTHERN SIDE OF LAKE JACKSON BETWEEN BRILL
POINT ROAD AND MILLER LANDING ROAD.

THE FIRST REPORTED DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE OCCURRED AROUND 1202
PM ET BASED ON RADAR ON LEAH ROAD JUST WEST OF OLD BAINBRIDGE ROAD.
IN THIS AREA A LARGE TREE WAS BLOWN OVER ONTO A HOME. THIS WAS THE
ONLY DAMAGE OBSERVED IN THIS LOCATION. THIS AREA WAS CLASSIFIED AS
STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE WITH WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.

DAMAGE ALONG THE PATH OF THE STORM WAS REPORTED OVER THE NEXT FEW
MINUTES IN THE LAKESIDE SUBDIVISION JUST WEST OF U.S. HIGHWAY 27
NEAR THE LAKE JACKSON BOAT LANDING. DAMAGE AGAIN WAS
SPORADIC...CONFINED TO A FEW TREES DOWNED ALONG COOL EMERALD
DRIVE...ONE TREE AND A SMALL FLAG POLE SNAPPED ON LITTLE OSPREY
DRIVE. DAMAGE IN THIS AREA IS AGAIN CLASSIFIED AS STRAIGHT LINE
WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.

THE STORM CROSSED LAKE JACKSON AND PRODUCED DAMAGE AGAIN JUST
SOUTHWEST OF BRILL POINT ROAD. IN THIS AREA SEVERAL LARGE TREES WERE
EITHER UPROOTED OR SNAPPED ALONG THE SOUTHWEST FACING ASPECT OF THE
LAKE. ALL OF THE TREES THAT WERE UPROOTED OR SNAPPED FELL IN AN
EAST-NORTHEAST DIRECTION. ONE HOME HAD MINOR DAMAGE TO A SCREENED IN
PORCH WITH SOME LAWN FURNITURE MOVED FROM THE REAR OF THE HOME TO
THE FRONT. ADDITIONAL TREE DAMAGE WAS NOTED ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF
BRILL POINT ROAD...BUT AGAIN TREES IN THIS LOCATION WERE ALL
ORIENTED IN AN EAST NORTHEAST DIRECTION. WITH THIS DIRECTION BEING
RELATIVE TO STORM MOTION...AND WITH NO CONVERGENT DAMAGE SIGNATURE
OBSERVED IN THE DEBRIS FIELD...DAMAGE IN THIS LOCATION IS CLASSIFIED
AS STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE WITH WIND SPEEDS OF 70 TO 75 MPH.

THE NEXT REPORT OF DAMAGE OCCURRED JUST SOUTH OF THE 2100 BLOCK OF
MILLER LANDING ROAD. ONE HOME IN THIS LOCATION LOST A SIZABLE
PORTION OF SHINGLES ON THE SOUTHWARD FACING ASPECT OF THE HOME.
DEBRIS FROM THE ROOF WAS CARRIED NORTHWARD BETWEEN 50 AND 100 FEET.
THREE LARGE TREES WERE SNAPPED IN THE BACKYARD OF THIS HOME...ALL
FALLING IN A NORTHWARD DIRECTION. WITH THE DAMAGE PATTERN BEING
NEARLY PERPENDICULAR TO THE STORM PATH...THE DAMAGE IS DEEMED
CONSISTENT WITH A WEAK TORNADO. THIS TORNADO IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE
ONLY BEEN ON THE GROUND FOR AROUND ONE HALF MILE...AND LIKELY FIRST
TOUCHED DOWN OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF LAKE JACKSON JUST EAST OF
BRILL POINT. THE COMBINATION OF THE SNAPPED TREES AND LOSS OF A
SIZABLE PORTION OF SHINGLES...THIS TORNADO IS RATED AN EF-0 ON THE
ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE WITH MAXIMUM WINDS UP TO 80 MPH.

NO OTHER DAMAGE ASIDE FROM A FEW TREES DOWN WAS OBSERVED FROM
MERIDIAN ROAD EASTWARD TO THOMASVILLE ROAD. THE AREA OF OBSERVED
DAMAGE IS SPREAD SPORADICALLY OVER A THREE AND ONE HALF MILE AREA
FROM LEAH ROAD NORTHEASTWARD TO MILLER LANDING ROAD. THE OVERALL
PATH WIDTH OF DAMAGE VARIES BETWEEN 50 YARDS AND 150 YARDS...WITH
THE WIDEST AREA OF DAMAGE OCCURRING JUST SOUTHWEST OF BRILL POINT.

IN SUMMARY...DAMAGE ALONG MUCH OF THE PATH LENGTH OF THIS STORM WAS
DETERMINED TO BE CONSISTENT...PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE ORIENTATION
OF THE DAMAGE FIELD...WITH STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. THE DAMAGE ALONG
MILLER LANDING ROAD IS DEEMED CONSISTENT WITH A WEAK TORNADO THAT
LIKELY DEVELOPED ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THE REAR FLANK DOWNDRAFT.
MAXIMUM WINDS ALONG THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE ESTIMATED AT 70 TO 75
MPH ALONG BRILL POINT AND 80 MPH WITHIN THE TORNADO AREA SOUTH OF
MILLER POINT ROAD...WHICH CORRELATES TO AN EF-0 TORNADO ON THE
ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE.

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GODSEY