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EF1 tornado in Tom Green County, Texas

Tornado April 19, 2025 · Tom Green County, Texas

EF1

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A supercell thunderstorm moved across Grape Creek Saturday

evening, producing a brief tornado that damaged numerous trees,

and uprooted at least two trees. The tornado also blew off many

roof shingles from a house, uplifted metal roofing panels from a

small outbuilding, moved a metal carport at least 15 feet, moved

and blew over a trash dumpster, and pushed a trailer a few feet

off its parked location on a stationary block.

The wider storm

The combination of a stationary front, surface dryline and an upper level low pressure system to the west resulted in many severe thunderstorms developing on the afternoon and evening along the stationary front on April 19th. Also, moderate to strong instability and strong vertical wind shear helped with the severe storm development. The severe storms produced very large hail and damaging winds and a few tornadoes mainly across portions of the Concho Valley. Also, redeveloping thunderstorms and abundant low to mid level moisture resulted in very heavy rain and localized flash flooding.

Began near Carlsbad (31.6035, -100.5464).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1253511. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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