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F3 tornado in Young County, Texas

Tornado May 29, 1994 · Young County, Texas

Rating

7.0 mi

Path length

600 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 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.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A large tornado was video-taped by storm chasers. The tornado was on the ground for 20 minutes and moved south-southeast across open ranch land with the only known damage being to a garage and an oil storage tank.

Began near Olney To (33.3300, -98.8200).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10355661. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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