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F0 tornado in Parker County, Texas

Tornado June 3, 2000 · Parker County, Texas

F0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
10 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 F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A brief tornado was reported seven miles south of the downtown area on main street.

The wider storm

June 3rd & 4th - Event NarrativeNumerous boundaries were across the state and they acted as triggers for showers and thunderstorms. Upper level winds were very light and any storms that formed moved very slowly. Flash flooding was observed across almost all of the area at some point during the month. One particularly strong cell dropped a tornado near Weatherford. There was a lot of flood damage in western Tarrant county, where numerous homes were flooded. This was a fairly widespread rainfall event with many counties experiencing flooding. The counties along the red river received less rainfall than the rest of the region. Some of the heavier amounts included (in inches) 6.43 in Cleburne, 8.50 in Burleson, and 12.33 in Cresson (Johnson county); 6.70 in Weatherford (Parker county); 7.05 in Midlothian and 7.65 in Waxahachie (Ellis county); 8.70 in Hillsboro ( Hill county); 7.51 in Meridian and 6.24 in Morgan (Bosque county); 7.65 in West (Mclennan county); 2.19 in Breckenridge (Stephens county).

Began near Weatherford (32.7667, -97.8000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F0 Parker County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5148666. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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