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EF2 tornado in Hall County, Texas

Tornado March 28, 2007 · Hall County, Texas

EF2

Rating

17.5 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$175K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 long-lived tornado that impacted eastern Briscoe County moved through rural areas of northwestern Hall County, just west and northwest of Brice. Although the tornado was large and had a history of causing significant damage, no man-made structures were affected in Hall County. The tornado was roping out when it crossed the Hall and Donley County line west of Texas Highway 70 at 17:05 CST.

The wider storm

A second supercell thunderstorm initiated along the dryline over eastern Hale and western Floyd County. This storm produced large hail and a family of tornadoes as it tracked northeastward. The most significant tornado to impact the South Plains region on the 28th developed as this storm tracked over the Caprock Canyons State Park area north of Quitaque (Briscoe County). This tornado damaged at least three structures as it cut a nearly twenty mile path across eastern Briscoe County, northwestern Hall County, and southern Donley County.

Began near Brice (34.6428, -100.9496).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Floyd County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 21455. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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