EF1 Tornado — Red River, Texas

2022-05-24 · near Detroit, Red River, Texas

Event narrative

An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds of 95 mph touched down northeast of Detroit along County Road 2127 North, where it twisted small and large limbs on a couple of trees. The tornado crossed CR 2140 and 2133, where it snapped and uprooted hardwood trees. The tornado was most evident in this location with the tall grass in a field pushed down and hardwood trees snapped in a convergent pattern. As the tornado crossed CR 2133, it just missed a single wide mobile home, only ripping a few metal panels off of its roof. The tornado continued to mostly twist and down large branches as it crossed CR 2234 and CR 2235, with a few hardwood trees snapped as it crossed CR 2235 before lifting. It is possible that the tornado continued on further beyond CR 2235, but a heavily wooded area prevented further access to the survey team.

Wider weather episode

A warm front lifting northward throughout the day of May 24th, followed by a strong shortwave trough lifting northeast from south Texas, resulted in isolated strong to severe thunderstorms across northeast Texas during the afternoon. Very warm temperatures and dew points ahead of a cold front resulted in rapidly increasing instability in the broadening warm sector throughout the afternoon and evening hours. A complex of strong to severe thunderstorms farther west across the Texas panhandle region earlier in the day gradually advanced eastward and closely tracked along the middle Red River Valley with the trailing cold front shifting along and east of the I-35 corridor of north and central Texas later in the afternoon and evening. A few severe storms along the front produced damaging wind gusts and an isolated tornado over part of northeast Texas during the afternoon.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1031864. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.