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EF0 tornado in Lamar County, Texas

Tornado April 30, 2025 · Lamar County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 short, brief, EF-0 tornado damaged one home and some tree branches along Country Road 35650 in northwestern Lamar County, west of Pat Mayse Lake. The wind of the tornado caught the west edge of the roof and peeled off much of the metal covering and some of the decking. A HVAC unit on the same side of the house was also affected, and tree damage was noted just east of the property near the intersection of CR 35650 and CR 35610. Maximum estimated winds were 80 mph.

The wider storm

A slow moving front and an upper trough generated scattered thunderstorms on April 29, and widespread showers and thunderstorms on April 30, across much of North and Central Texas. Some of these storms became severe with large hail and damaging winds, but the most impactful weather was flash flooding due to the slow movement of the front and the resulting 'training' of thunderstorms along and near the front.

Began near Belk (33.8134, -95.7196).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1256778. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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