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EF0 tornado in Hamilton County, Texas

Tornado May 15, 2013 · Hamilton County, Texas

EF0
Rating
1.2 mi
Whole path
40 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Hamilton County → Hamilton County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 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

The Hamilton County Emergency Manager observed two nearly simultaneous tornadoes just north of Evant. This was the easternmost tornado of the two.

The wider storm

A tornado and severe weather outbreak occurred on the afternoon and evening hours of May 15th. Nineteen tornadoes occurred, including one EF-4 and one EF-3. Six fatalities occurred in the city of Granbury, TX. These fatalities were the first in the Fort Worth county warning area since 2006. An additional 54 people were injured by the various tornadoes during the evening of May 15th. A number of homes, 171, suffered major damaged or were destroyed. An additional 513 homes suffered minor damage or were somehow affected.

During the afternoon of May 15th, a vigorous upper level low moved slowly southeast from the panhandle of Texas into the Red River Valley. A dry line strengthened throughout the day, triggering thunderstorms between Bowie and the DFW metroplex. As the upper storm moved slowly east and southeast, several supercell thunderstorms developed, and most of them produced tornadoes.

Began near Evant (31.5020, -98.1450).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Hood County 6 deadEF3 Johnson CountyEF1 Montague CountyEF1 Montague CountyEF1 Parker CountyEF1 Hood CountyEF1 Ellis CountyEF0 Mills CountyEF0 Montague CountyEF0 Palo Pinto CountyEF0 Parker CountyEF0 Wise CountyEF0 Parker CountyEF0 Parker CountyEF0 Johnson CountyEF0 Johnson CountyEF0 Montague County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 443355. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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