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EF0 tornado in Lipscomb County, Texas

Tornado June 15, 2023 · Lipscomb County, Texas

EF0

Rating

4.8 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$11K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lipscomb County → Ellis County, Oklahoma; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 tornado developed to the west of Highway 1453. It resulted in a few downed tree branches before crossing into Ellis County, Oklahoma. This tornado was also observed by several storm spotters and chasers.

The wider storm

During the evening of the 15th a line of storms, of which contained supercells, formed over portions of southwest Kansas and extend south through Beaver County, OK into the northeastern portions of the Texas Panhandle. The supercell furthest south dropped a tornado on Perryton, TX killing three people and leaving a path of distruction over 6 miles. Several other landspout tornadoes spun up further south of Perryton along the flanking line of the tornadic supercell. One of these landpouts took out some power poles, but remained mostly in grasslands. These tornadic supercells also produced large hail between 1 and 2.5 in diameter.

Began near Higgins (36.0760, -100.0180).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Ochiltree County 3 dead EF2 Ochiltree County EF0 Ochiltree County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1114834. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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