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Tornado May 27, 2023 · Yoakum County, Texas

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Not rated
0.7 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A supercell thunderstorm that had a history of producing tornadoes in eastern New Mexico developed a brief tornado northwest of Plains. The short lived tornado occurred over open land and inflicted no known damage.

The wider storm

Late in the afternoon into the evening of the 27th, a couple of supercells moving east-southeast out of eastern New Mexico produced severe weather in the western South Plains. One of these supercell thunderstorms produced tornadoes in eastern New Mexico before moving into Yoakum County. As the storm tracked across Yoakum County, it produced a brief tornado northwest of Plains and severe hail in the city of Plains. A second supercell thunderstorm tracked across northern Cochran County producing severe hail in Morton.

Began near Plains Yoakum Co Arp (33.2174, -102.8557).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1097465. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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