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EF2 tornado in Coke County, Texas

Tornado May 3, 2024 · Coke County, Texas

EF2

Rating

4.5 mi

Path length

125 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

The Silver Tornado damaged a private property just north of FM2029.

The roof of a ranch house was completely ripped off but the walls

remained standing. The tornado also completely destroyed a metal

barn and threw building material a considerable distance away from

the house and barn. The estimated peak wind of the tornado was 125 mph.

The wider storm

A favorable weather pattern for widespread severe weather was in place across west central Texas during early May. There was an upper level southwest flow and a sharp dryline in the area. Also, extreme instability was present along with strong vertical wind shear during the late afternoon and evening hours. Supercell thunderstorms developed and produced strong tornadoes in Jones, Runnels and Sterling counties which resulted in damage to homes and other structures. Also, severe thunderstorms produced giant size hail and damaging winds.

Began near Silver (32.0280, -100.7034).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Jones County EF3 Coke County EF2 Runnels County EF2 Concho County EFU Jones County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1187513. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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