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EF1 tornado in Brazos County, Texas

Tornado March 21, 2022 · Brazos County, Texas

EF1

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

175 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 175 yards (0.10 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 EF1 tornado pushed a home off its blocks and damaged the roof as well as snapping the trunks of trees.

The wider storm

Discrete supercell thunderstorms developed ahead of an advancing cold front on the night of March 20, producing strong wind gusts, hail, and tornadoes. Later, a squall line formed along the front itself as it moved through SE TX, resulting in additional straight line wind and tornado damage across the area.

Began near Kurten (30.7405, -96.2008).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Houston County 1 dead EF1 Madison County EF0 Burleson County EF0 Burleson County EF0 Brazoria County EF0 Fort Bend County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1008039. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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