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F2 tornado in Randall County, Texas

Tornado May 7, 1995 · Randall County, Texas

Rating

12.0 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$500K

Damage as recorded

$100K

Crop damage

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

NOAA’s online database has no written narrative for tornadoes before 1996 — just the numbers above, transcribed from the original storm logs. Written accounts from this era do exist in NOAA’s monthly Storm Data publications (scanned, back to 1959).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10353403. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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