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EF0 tornado in Houston County, Texas

Tornado December 25, 2012 · Houston County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

30 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

The brief EF-0 was observed by law enforcement near the scene of the earlier EF-3 tornado along Highway 287. Some debris was lofted but there was little to no structural damage.

The wider storm

On Christmas Day strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a warm front that was lifting north through the area. One of those storms produced an EF-3 tornado near Pennington, TX.

Began near Lovelady (31.2131, -95.1956).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Houston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 426572. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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