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F3 tornado in Carson County, Texas

Tornado May 29, 2001 · Carson County, Texas

F3
Rating
10.0 mi
Path length
440 yd
Path width
$250K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 440 yards (0.25 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 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

The tornado destroyed an office building associated with a grain elevator...unroofed and severely damaged a nearby home...and tossed a pickup truck and suburban about fifty and one hundred yards respectively. Several cattle and one horse were reported killed or injured from the tornado. As many as fifty power poles and transmission lines were brought down from the storm. The tornado path and width were estimated and an official damage survey was made on the tornado.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms produced tornadoes and large hail from the central and southern Texas panhandle into the eastern and southeastern Texas panhandle during the evening hours.

Began near Panhandle (35.4000, -101.3833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F0 Carson CountyF0 Carson CountyF0 Carson CountyF0 Carson CountyF0 Randall CountyF0 Carson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5246078. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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