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EF0 tornado in Donley County, Texas

Tornado March 28, 2007 · Donley County, Texas

EF0
Rating
17.5 mi
Whole path
200 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 200 yards (0.11 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

This tornado originated in northwestern Hall county southwest of Brice and entered Donley County at 1805 CST. This tornado remained over open country and the path length and path width were estimated. No damage or injuries were reported.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms during the evening hours produced numerous tornadoes and large hail across the southern...central and eastern Texas panhandle. Heavy rains caused flash flooding in the eastern Texas panhandle during the late night and early morning hours. One man was killed by a tornado in the northeastern Texas panhandle and another person was injured.

Began near Clarendon (34.7697, -100.9809).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 21758. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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