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EF1 tornado in Orange County, Texas

Tornado January 24, 2023 · Orange County, Texas

EF1

Rating

27.5 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

Injuries

$1.3M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Orange County → Orange County → Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 brief tornado developed over the Bessie Heights Marsh producing damage to trees and roofs from Nora Circle across Round Bunch Road, Edgar Drive to Turner Road. The tornado damaged electrical transmission lines as it weakened before Bessie Heights Road. Max estimated winds were 100 mph.

The wider storm

A vigorous storm system moved across the region spawning high wind gusts and a pair of tornadoes in deep southeast Texas.

Began near Orangefield Arpt (30.0320, -93.9084).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Jefferson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1077174. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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