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EF0 tornado in Fort Bend County, Texas

Tornado March 22, 2022 · Fort Bend County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

Injuries

$100K

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 EF1 tornado produced a path of damage that included the flipping of an RV home, the uprooting of a few large trees and severe damage to another home. There were four injuries to the occupants of the RV. Damage was mainly EF0 but rated a minimal EF1 based on damage to the second property.

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 Kendleton (29.4886, -96.0397).

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 Brazoria County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1008114. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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