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EF0 tornado in Falls County, Texas

Tornado May 23, 2024 · Falls County, Texas

EF0
Rating
18.5 mi
Path length
400 yd
Path width
$500
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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

A tornado formed southwest of Chilton, TX, in Falls County. It moved northeast, crossing US 77 and producing scattered tree damage as it roughly paralleled State Highway 7 from near Chilton to the Brazos River bottomland southwest of Marlin. Scattered tree damage, mainly constituting the snapping of large hardwood limbs, occurred throughout Marlin and surrounding areas. The tornado dissipated just east of Marlin. This tornado was rated EF-0 with maximum estimated winds of 85 mph.

The wider storm

With a highly unstable airmass in place, a meandering front, a dryline, and a shortwave trough all worked together to generate multiple rounds of thunderstorms May 23 and 24. In addition to large hail and damaging winds, multiple tornadoes also occurred along with a few instances of flash flooding. A total of 6 tornadoes occurred in Central and East Texas: 2 EF-1s, 3 EF-0s, and 1 EF-U.

Began near Dot (31.2599, -97.0928).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Falls CountyEF1 Henderson CountyEF0 Falls CountyEF0 Limestone CountyEFU Bell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1181469. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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