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EF1 tornado in Fannin County, Texas

Tornado June 8, 2025 · Fannin County, Texas

EF1
Rating
11.3 mi
Whole path
500 yd
Path width
$600K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Fannin County → Fannin County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

The same parent storm that produced the Ravenna tornado also spawned another EF-1 tornado that touched down along FM 274 around 2 miles south of Ravenna, causing minor damage to a home and blowing down a few trees. The tornado intensified as it continued southeast, blowing down numerous trees in rural areas east of FM 274 and north of FM 898. Southwest of the tornado path, RFD or inflow winds into the tornado blew down many more trees along FM 274 and FM 898 west of CR 1444. As the tornado crossed FM 898 near CR 1445, a few homes suffered minor exterior damage, some outbuildings were heavily damaged, and many large trees were snapped or uprooted. A small silo along CR 1445 was lifted and blown 350 yards to the southeast before landing. Notable cyclonic patterns were also apparent in flattened grass in this area. The tornado weakened as it crossed US 82 and Hwy 121, knocking down just a few trees, causing very minor damage to a Fix & Feed store, and blowing a few sheds into a field. As the tornado entered the city of Bonham, it intensified again and blew down hundreds of trees along residential streets in the northwest part of the city. Three homes along Agnew Street suffered heavy wind damage (where the maximum estimated winds of 100 mph occurred), a church on Franklin Ave lost its steeple, and another church on Oriental Street lost an exterior wall. The tornado continued through the southeast part of town causing more sporadic damage before it dissipated just past Carpenter Loop. Maximum estimated winds were 100 mph.

The wider storm

A highly unstable and strongly sheared environment set the stage for an evening of severe weather, as a line of thunderstorms pushed south from the Southern Plains into North Texas on June 8. Widespread wind damage, scattered large hail reports and a few tornadoes occurred as storms continued south overnight into the early morning hours of June 9.

Began near Ravenna (33.6462, -96.2468).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1278183. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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