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EF1 tornado in Tyler County, Texas

Tornado March 4, 2025 · Tyler County, Texas

EF1
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$25K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado began roughly 0.5 miles west of HWY 287 where several trees were damaged along with some outbuildings. The tornado then continued northeast where it damaged a home, an outbuilding was destroyed, and several pine trees were snapped at the trunk. Two by fours were impaled into the roof of the home as well. Roughly 30% of roof was peeled off of the home. The tornado then continued east towards HWY 287 where tree damage was found near Little Cypress Creek. This was the end of the Little Cypress Tornado. Max estimated wind was 95 mph.

The wider storm

A strong area of low pressure moved across the plains during early March. Severe weather affected portions of southeast Texas as the associated upper disturbance and cold front moved through.

Began near Doucette (30.8225, -94.4954).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1245595. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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