EF1 tornado in Hunt County, Texas

A brief, EF-1 tornado developed in western Hunt County, just west of FM 36 between Private Road 1184 and CR 1096. Multiple barns and farm outbuildings were destroyed on a property near the roadway along with damage to the roofs of several nearby single family residences. As the tornado tracked east towards CR 1097, it passed through a few wooded areas resulting in tree damage including broken small and large branches. The front porch roof was pulled off of a home on the northern end of CR 1097 causing damaging to the roof of the home (DI 2, DOD 2). Tree damage continued east of the property before the tornado lifted over open land north of CR 1096. Maximum winds were 90 mph.

Another round of dryline-induced convection took place the night of May 25 as a shortwave trough moved overhead. Thunderstorms were more isolated in nature, but one ambitious supercell produced multiple tornadoes the evening of May 25th. A total of 5 tornadoes were produced by the supercell as it moved across Montague, Cooke, Denton, Collin, and Hunt counties, and one more EF-2 occurred from a separate storm in Eastland County. The most notable tornado of the event was a long-track EF-3 tornado across Montague, Cooke, and Denton counties that killed 7 people and injured over 100, drawing national attention to our forecast area and costing an estimated $20 million in damage. A short but intense satellite tornado was also rated EF-3 north of Celina in Collin County. Additional EF-1 tornadoes occurred in Denton, Collin, and Hunt counties. Storm surveys for this event took 3 days to complete. In the after math of the storms the night of May 25th, dissipating thunderstorms produced strong winds across the DFW Metroplex with measured gusts of 60-70 mph winds causing sporadic tree and fence damage.