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EF0 tornado in Pecos County, Texas

Tornado March 23, 2007 · Pecos County, Texas

EF0

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

A local television forecaster filmed a tornado in open country southwest of Fort Stockton associated with a supercell thunderstorm. This thunderstorm produced up to baseball size hail and one other reported tornado during its lifetime. This storm and its effects were also responsible for the closing of Interstate 10 near Bakersfield.

The wider storm

An upper level storm system moved east across northern Mexico across west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. Ahead of this system, a moist and unstable airmass was in place. As temperatures warmed throughout the day, the atmosphere became more unstable. Storms initiated in the Big Bend and across the mountains of southeastern New Mexico and moved north and eastward.

The Midland county warning area saw five recorded tornadoes on the 23rd, four in New Mexico and one in Texas. The four in New Mexico were documented by both trained Skywarn spotters and by a National Weather Service damage survey team. The tornado in Texas was recorded by a television news/weather crew in the area. Baseball size hail was also associated with the Texas storm.

Began near Ft Stockton (30.6755, -102.6320).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Upton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 21909. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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