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EF0 tornado in Liberty County, Texas

Tornado January 8, 2022 · Liberty County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
20 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

This EF0 tornado was spotted by a broadcast meteorologist just west of Dayton with lofted debris briefly underneath a cone shaped cloud aloft. There was no significant damage.

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 Dayton (30.0425, -94.9065).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Harris CountyEF1 Harris CountyEF0 Montgomery CountyEF0 Harris CountyEF0 Harris County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1004030. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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