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EF0 tornado in Foard County, Texas

Tornado May 4, 2022 · Foard County, Texas

EF0

Rating

23.1 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Foard County → Wilbarger County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

The Lockett tornado was observed by storm spotters and storm chasers to have developed in eastern Foard County to the southwest of Thalia. This tornado moved east and then northeast before crossing into Wilbarger County and eventually moving through Lockett TX. In Foard County, only tree damage was observed along County Road 183, otherwise the tornado moved through open or inaccessible ranchland.

The wider storm

Storms moved in from the Texas panhandle during the evening of the 4th, bringing tornadoes to western sections of north Texas.

Began near Thalia (33.9350, -99.6160).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Foard County EFU King County EFU Foard County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1033694. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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