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EF0 tornado in Parker County, Texas

Tornado April 19, 2025 · Parker County, Texas

EF0
Rating
4.1 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
$12K
Damage as recorded
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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.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 small, weak, intermittent EF-0 tornado with max winds of 65 mph touched down around 6.2 miles southwest of Weatherford and moved northward before lifting in the Greenwood community around 3.7 miles west of Weatherford. Large tree branches were blown down and an outbuilding was flipped over along Royal Santana Run, and a few trees and tree branches were blown down along Old Brock Road and Coy Road. North of I-20, a few tree branches were blown down along Ranger Highway east of Greenwood Cut Off Road and near Desperado Way, and a home and barn received minor damage between Greenwood Cut Off Road and High Meadows Drive.

The wider storm

Multiple upper level shortwaves moved overtop the Plains contributing to the development of severe storms near and along a cold front and dryline on and off between the 18th and 20th. Large hail, damaging winds, flash flooding, and tornadoes were all observed, particularly on the 19th. A total of 12 tornadoes occurred along and east of Highway 281 causing considerable damage: 1 EF-2, 5 EF-1s, and 6 EF-0s.

Began near Brock (32.6880, -97.8654).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1256731. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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