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EF0 tornado in Fort Bend County, Texas

Tornado January 24, 2023 · Fort Bend County, Texas

EF0

Rating

14.6 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

This EF0 tornado touched down near the intersection of FM 1994 and Fair Childs Long Point Road five miles east southeast of Needville. A sporadic path of tree damage was found extending northeast toward Thompsons Oil Field and into Sienna. Most of the damage found consisted of broken tree limbs, small trees uprooted, minor roof and siding damage, and downed fences.

The wider storm

Several tornadoes occurred across the area in the afternoon.

Began near Long Pt (29.3900, -95.7400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Harris County EF2 Liberty County EF0 Brazoria County EF0 Chambers County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1075140. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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