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EF0 tornado in Ellis County, Texas

Tornado March 5, 2024 · Ellis County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Multiple pictures and videos were received of a landspout that occurred near Forreston in Ellis County. The landspout remained over rural land.

The wider storm

Periodic storms ahead of and along a slow-moving cold front produced mainly hail across North Texas March 4th through 6th. A short-lived landspout was observed in Ellis County near Forreston on the 5th. Additional rounds of showers and storms formed to our west and moved east over the 6th through the 8th, producing hail and damaging wind gusts.

Began near Forreston (32.2500, -96.8600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1169944. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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