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EF0 tornado in Gaines County, Texas

Tornado June 1, 2007 · Gaines County, Texas

EF0
Rating
2.5 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

An off duty NWS employee reported a tornado that lasted between five and ten minutes and was approximately 50 yards wide. This tornado remained in open country and no structures were affected.

The wider storm

A large upper level low was situated over the northern plains with a west coast ridge edging into west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. This produced favorable northwest flow aloft and contributed to a long weekend of severe weather over the area.

Instability and wind shear combined to produce several weak tornadoes across west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. These tornadoes remained over open country and did no significant damage.

Began near Seminole (32.7200, -102.3922).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Andrews CountyEF0 Winkler CountyEF0 Ector CountyEF0 Gaines CountyEF0 Loving County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 43703. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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