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EF2 tornado in Knox County, Texas

Tornado April 29, 2025 · Knox County, Texas

EF2

Rating

11.8 mi

Whole path

700 yd

Path width

$700K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Knox County → Baylor County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 700 yards (0.40 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

This tornado started just southwest of Vera and initially moved southeast for about a mile before turning east. A number of trees were damaged, a crane was toppled and a blade of a wind turbine was broken south of Vera. As the tornado moved east approaching US Highway 82, at least two metal buildings were significantly damaged, and one outbuilding was destroyed with pieces of the building blown onto the highway. One home near the county line also suffered roof damage. The tornado then crossed into Baylor County along and north of US-82.

The wider storm

Multiple rounds of severe convection and flooding occurred from the predawn hours of the 29th into morning hours of the 30th. The most significant round of severe thunderstorm activity occurred across portions of western-north Texas on the evening of the 29th, where intense supercell thunderstorms produced very large hail, damaging wind gusts and a pair of significant (EF-2+) tornadoes.

Began near Vera (33.6290, -99.5700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Baylor County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1254063. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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