EF0 tornado in Wilbarger County, Texas

Tornado November 7, 2011 · Wilbarger County, Texas

EF0

Rating

17.4 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Wilbarger County → Jackson County, Oklahoma → Tillman County, Oklahoma; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 began over far northern Wilbarger county before quickly moving into Jackson county, OK and continuing into Tillman county. No known damage occurred with this portion of the tornado.

The wider storm

Although much of the severe weather remained north of the Red River, a particularly nasty supercell thunderstorm began over far northern Wilbarger county. The tornado was only briefly in the county before it crossed the river into Jackson county, Oklahoma.

Began near Fargo (34.3300, -99.2200).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 353594. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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