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EF0 tornado in Hutchinson County, Texas

Tornado May 1, 2022 · Hutchinson County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.0 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

As seen in videos provided, a very short lived landspout occurred in Fritch with location intersection near Palm and Ridgeland. Minor damage occurred, specifically, a few small tree limbs were downed, and there was damage to the metal roof of a barn as well as damage to a small shed that had been lofted into a nearby powerline.

The wider storm

The combined Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles saw an influx of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico on May 1st. This axis of low level moisture followed the Rio Grande before moving north up over west Texas. This created an unstable environment primed for severe thunderstorms from the Midland/Odessa area up through the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. Thunderstorms initiated along the New Mexico/Texas state line and moved east to northeast depending on the nature of the storm. Multiple supercells formed in the late afternoon into evening hours. These supercells had plenty of moisture, instability and increasing winds with height that enabled them to become severe with very large hail and damaging winds which exceeded 80 mph in some cases.

Began near Fritch (35.6365, -101.5991).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1063161. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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