EF1 Tornado — Hemphill, Texas

2023-06-22 · near Gageby, Hemphill, Texas

Event narrative

This tornado developed near County Road 17 and produced some minor tree damage, with limbs and branches being blown down. The tornado then continued across open field before impacting a residence just off Highway 277, where it brought down trees and some power lines along that road. As it crossed Highway 277, it brought down about 7 power poles, and caused more impressive tree damage, snapping branches and some trees while uprooting other hardwood trees. It resulted in some minor roof damage to a shed and damaged another shed at a natural gas facility. The tornado then crossed County Road 22, just to the south of Highway 277. Here, it snapped several hardwood branches and uprooted another tree. It also lifted the lids off of two silos, one of which collapsed in on the side. The debris of the lids ended up damaging a nearby barn. The tornado then crossed open fields and Highway 277 once more before causing some minor tree branch damage along Highway 2124. The tornado likely lifted after this point.

Wider weather episode

Various discrete and scattered thunderstorms impacted portions the combined Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles each evening and overnight on the 21st through the 23rd. Several of these storms produced large hail over and inch in diameter with some as large as 2.75. Severe wind gusts were also hazard with a gust upwards of 66 mph measured by ground equipment. A supercell even dropped a tornado in Hemphill County.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1112492. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.