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EF0 tornado in Lamar County, Texas

Tornado May 20, 2025 · Lamar County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.1 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 very brief tornado damaged some trees along CR 43200 east of Powderly. The tornado was rated EF-0 with maximum 80 mph winds.

The wider storm

An eastward-surging dryline provided focus for yet another round of strong to severe thunderstorms as an upper level trough swept through the Plains on May 19. Montague County received the majority of the severe weather, as the triple point between the dryline, cold front, and warm front remained stationary near that location for several hours. Storms eventually expanded south, and spread east through the rest of the region late that afternoon and into the evening. Hail up to 4.5 inches was reported in the Saint Jo area in Montague County. In addition, 3 brief tornadoes occurred in counties along the Red River: 1 EF-Unknown, and 2 EF-0s.

Began near Powderly (33.7936, -95.4719).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Fannin CountyEFU Cooke County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1265238. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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