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F0 tornado in Newton County, Texas

Tornado October 16, 2006 · Newton County, Texas

Rating

2.2 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A small tornado was seen by several people near Weirgate. Damage was confined to trees blown down.

The wider storm

An abundance of moisture and high wind shear resulted in several tornadoes and flash floods across southeast Texas.

Began near Wiergate (31.0000, -93.6800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Jefferson County F0 Hardin County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 2396. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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