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EF0 tornado in Brazoria County, Texas

Tornado March 22, 2022 · Brazoria County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

This EF0 tornado snapped large tree limbs off a few trees. A child's playhouse was thrown a hundred yards. This tornado was captured on a video by the public.

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 Danbury (29.2286, -95.3365).

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 Brazos County EF1 Madison County EF0 Burleson County EF0 Burleson County EF0 Fort Bend County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1008096. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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