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Tornado in Dawson County, Texas

Tornado June 10, 2024 · Dawson County, Texas

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Not rated

0.5 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A video shared to broadcast media showed a brief tornado over an open field west of Lamesa. The tornado did not cause any damage and is rated EF-Unknown. The path is estimated from this report and radar data.

The wider storm

A weak, convectively enhanced upper-low over the Texas/New Mexico border aided in the development of severe thunderstorms ahead of this feature. This included hail, damaging winds, and a couple of brief tornadoes.

Began near Sand (32.7396, -102.0975).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EFU Gaines County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1196204. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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