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F0 tornado in Limestone County, Texas

Tornado March 30, 2002 · Limestone County, Texas

Rating

3.5 mi

Whole path

30 yd

Path width

$4K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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 shed roof was blown off, the antenna was blown off a house, and numerous trees were blown down. The tornado moved northeast into rural Freestone County 1.5 miles north of Personville.

Began near Personville (31.5000, -96.3667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Limestone County F1 Eastland County F0 Falls County F0 Hamilton County F0 Hamilton County F0 Eastland County F0 Erath County F0 Anderson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5284694. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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