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EF0 tornado in Montgomery County, Texas

Tornado January 8, 2022 · Montgomery County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 brief tornado touched down and damaged buildings that were under construction. Also damage to a restaurant.

The wider storm

Scattered thunderstorms associated with the approach of an offshore low pressure system produced several tornadoes on the evening of January 8 and the early morning of January 9. These tornadoes resulted in several instances of property and tree damage across the Greater Houston Area. Some non-tornadic storms also produced strong, damaging wind gusts. Later, heavy rainfall associated with continuing thunderstorm activity resulted in flash flooding across the Houston Metro.

Began near Montgomery (30.3912, -95.6873).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

5 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Harris CountyEF1 Harris CountyEF0 Harris CountyEF0 Liberty CountyEF0 Harris County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1004017. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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