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EF0 tornado in Limestone County, Texas

Tornado May 23, 2024 · Limestone County, Texas

EF0
Rating
14.9 mi
Whole path
300 yd
Path width

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

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 third tornado was spawned by the same supercell moving across Falls and Limestone counties. This tornado formed southeast of Kosse in extreme southwest Limestone County. Scattered large tree limbs were snapped along State Highway 7 as the tornado moved eastward into northern Robertson County near Willow Creek. This tornado was rated an EF-0 with maximum estimated winds were 85 mph. It traveled approximately 3.41 miles before moving into Robertson County at 728 pm CDT.

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 Harmony (31.2776, -96.5633).

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 Falls CountyEFU Bell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1182251. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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