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EF1 tornado in Grimes County, Texas

Tornado April 28, 2024 · Grimes County, Texas

EF1

Rating

4.3 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$80K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Grimes County → Madison County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

NWS Storm survey found EF1 tornado damage along a path across portions of northern Grimes and southern Madison counties, generally parallel and to the west of SH 90 between Bedias and Madisonville. Damage included trees downed and uprooted, and there was also some roof damage to a few homes.

The wider storm

Evening through overnight storms produced a lot of flash flooding, a couple tornadoes, some winds damage and some hail.

Began near Bedias (30.8200, -95.9700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Trinity County 1 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1177191. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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