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F1 tornado in Cooke County, Texas

Tornado April 11, 2001 · Cooke County, Texas

Rating

19.0 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$40K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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

Tornado number three moved back into Cooke County approximately 6.8 miles northwest of Callisburg(3 ESE Thackerville,Ok) moved northeast and dissipated on the Texas-Oklahoma state line approximately 12 miles North of Callisburg (10 ESE Marietta, Ok) at 0315C. Damage along this part of the track was confined to trees and power lines. See national weather service Norman, Oklahoma storm data for information on the Oklahoma portion of the damage.

The wider storm

April 11th, Episode NarrativeAn upper level low pressure system over West Texas helped initiate thunderstorm development which then moved across North Texas overnight. A squall line with a few embedded supercells moved over the region. The primary severe weather events were wind and hail damage. Supercells along the Red River produced tornadoes in Cooke County before moving north of the Red River into Oklahoma. Numerous reports of damage from strong winds were also received across North Texas.

Began near Callisburg (33.7667, -97.1000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Cooke County F1 Cooke County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5237698. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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