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EF0 tornado in Jackson County, Texas

Tornado September 25, 2023 · Jackson County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$200K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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

Eye witness observed small funnel passing over eastern end of Cottonwood Apartments, damaging a building there, then proceeding to strike a metal storage unit. Swirling tin, debris was observed.

The wider storm

Severe storms developed along a slowly moving frontal boundary on the afternoon of September 25, producing wind damage across the region. The area around Edna was especially hard hit with widespread wind damage and a brief tornado.

Began near Edna (29.0000, -96.6500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1145339. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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