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EF0 tornado in Galveston County, Texas

Tornado March 14, 2022 · Galveston County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A very brief EF-0 tornado occurred along West Half Moon Road in Santa Fe, just to the northwest of Santa Fe High School. A large oak tree was snapped, causing roof damage and destroying a well pump. The garage door in a single family home was blown out. A utility building had its metal siding destroyed. Several large pieces of heavy equipment sitting outdoors were picked up and moved by the tornado.

The wider storm

Showers and thunderstorms developed along and ahead of an evening cold front and produced a weak tornado and some hail.

Began near Arcadia (29.4050, -95.1484).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1002652. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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