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EF1 tornado in Jefferson County, Texas

Tornado January 24, 2023 · Jefferson County, Texas

EF1

Rating

5.5 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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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

An EF-1 tornado touched down just south of Highway 73, and tracked into the Taylor Landing community. Weak damage to roofs were common, along with uprooted trees and destroyed privacy fences. The tornado ended somewhere in the Taylor Bayou marsh downstream from Taylor Landing. Max estimated winds were 90 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 La Belle (29.8330, -94.1996).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Orange County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1077175. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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