EF3 Tornado — Baylor, Texas

2025-04-29 · near Seymour Muni Arpt, Baylor, Texas

Event narrative

This tornado developed just north of FM-1919 about 2.5 miles northwest of the Seymour airport and initially moved south destroying farm buildings and equipment. As the tornado approached FM-2069, it veered sharply and began moving east along and north of FM-2069 damaging the roof of a home and heavily damaging some outbuildings. The tornado continued moving east through the Seymour Municipal Airport destroying hangars, planes and vehicles at the airport. The tornado likely continued east and northeast from the airport, but this area was inaccessible to the ground survey team.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1254067. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.