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Tornado in Callahan County, Texas

Tornado May 18, 2025 · Callahan County, Texas

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Not rated

3.0 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.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A severe thunderstorm moved across western portions of Callahan

County late Sunday afternoon which produced a brief tornado about

6 miles south to southwest of Clyde, Texas near FM 604. Clyde VFD

sent a video of the tornado touching down west of Lake Clyde.

Time and exact location estimated from radar. No significant

damage was reported with this tornado as of today. Therefore...the

tornado has been classified as EFU, which means the winds

associated with the tornado are unknown at this time.

The wider storm

The combination of a strong upper level area of low pressure and a surface dryline resulted in a few rounds of severe thunderstorms across portions of west central Texas. In addition, strong to extreme instability and strong vertical wind shear assisted with severe thunderstorm development. The severe storms produced large hail and a tornado in Shackelford County on May 18th.

Began near Eula (32.3233, -99.5477).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Shackelford County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1267449. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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