Home / Texas / Harris

EF0 tornado in Harris County, Texas

Tornado June 3, 2009 · Harris County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$3K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 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

An EF0 tornado moved across the parking lot of Seabrook Intermediate School. A large limb was broken off a tree and several cars were shifted, suffering windshield damage.

The wider storm

Showers and thunderstorms developed along old outflow boundaries from earlier thunderstorms over central Texas.

Began near Joyce (29.5730, -95.0169).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 163727. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

Tornadoes near your address

See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.