F1 tornado — Brazos County, Texas

F1 tornado in Brazos County, Texas

Tornado December 29, 2006 · Brazos County, Texas

Rating

4.5 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

Injuries

$2.8M

Damage as recorded

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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 F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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

Tornado moved south to north crossing central College Station. Touchdown reported near Longmire Street and FM 2818. Several businesses and an apartment complex received significant damage. The majority of the damage was concentrated along the Harvey Mitchell Parkway.

The wider storm

A large upper-level low moving into west Texas from AZ-NM provided the large scale lift, or dynamics. Ample low-level instability, mainly very high southeasterly winds just off the surface with good veering of winds under 4k ft, set the stage for isolated tornadoes, damaging straight line winds, and south-to-north streamer/training cells.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 3105. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F1 tornado in Brazos County, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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