Bill,

Thanks for sending this to us, this kind of evidence is great, just wish folks 
would send it to us as well :-). 

We looked very closely at the terrain features in the picture and lined them up 
on Google Earth and it actually looks to us as if the funnel is very close to, 
if not over the damage area, when this shot was taken. The aspect definitely 
looks like it is toward the northwest. If you look at the cars, the photographer 
clearly came out of the larger building's NW Corner (they are all oriented in the 
proper direction with the parking lot lines), the Vent Cap on the sheet metal 
building, the street light and four steel poles (which I guess protect a fire 
hydrant from trucks running it over?) behind the cars/and fence also confirm 
that aspect. So they are looking NW and that means the funnel is close to if 
not over NW 196th Terrace.

The funnel looks like it's close to impacting the ground and from what we can 
tell likely did briefly impact the ground causing the damage. Based on this 
photographic evidence and the other damage pictures we're going to call this 
one an EF-0 Tornado, with an estimated 75 mph wind speed. I have to emphasize 
though that if we had gone out to conduct a storm survey it is likely we would 
have come to the same straight line wind conclusion, really it is this picture 
that tips the balance toward a tornado. Honestly It is very hard to differentiate 
these low end events between straight line winds and tornado activity and it 
looks like the circulation was below the 5kft (KJAX radar) and 7KFT (KVAX radar) 
beam heights.

Can you ascertain two things for us?

1. Can we get permission from the photographer to publish this picture in Storm 
Data with due credit of course, and

2. the time this picture was taken? Honestly I'm looking over the radar data and
it looks like the circulation was below 5 KFT and I don't see anything I would 
issue a Tornado Warning on, so it looks like one of those quick spin ups that 
happen sometimes and fall between the radar volume scans. time wise again based on 
radar looks like it must have occurred between 14:40 and 14:55 EDT.

Thanks again and please feel free to send us more pictures (on ANY event), this 
stuff really helps. We want to get it right, but sometimes it's just very hard to
make the call based just on the damage alone.

Al