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EF0 tornado in Cooke County, Texas

Tornado May 3, 2007 · Cooke County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

Brief touchdown just north of Lindsay. No damage reported.

The wider storm

A split in the upper levels of the atmosphere steered several southern stream impulses into north Texas, producing flash flooding, strong winds, and a few tornadoes. The most impressive of these events was a derecho which moved through North Texas on May 2. It produced winds in excess of 85 MPH.

Began near Lindsay (33.6717, -97.2300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Johnson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 31791. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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