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EF1 tornado in Rains County, Texas

Tornado November 4, 2022 · Rains County, Texas

EF1

Rating

7.3 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

A tornado started in northern Rains County crossing FM 514 near Daugherty. In this area, damage to a carport was noted along with damage to large trees. The tornado moved northeast causing notable tree damage to the Clifton Cemetery. The tornado continued northeast into southern Hopkins County where its track was traced by tree damage. Additional information on the tornado track in Hopkins County can found in a separate entry. Video evidence shows this tornado lifted just east of Hopkins County Road 1159 before the next tornado started. Maximum estimated winds were 100 mph.

The wider storm

A fast-moving cold front served as a focus for thunderstorm development across North and Central Texas, as an upper level storm system swept across the Plains the afternoon of November 4. Large hail and damaging wind gusts accompanied several of these storms, and a total of 5 tornadoes occurred. The hardest-hit area was Lamar County, where an EF-4 tornado occurred.

Began near Dougherty (32.9545, -95.7928).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Lamar County EF2 Henderson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1062582. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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