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F0 tornado in Bexar County, Texas

Tornado March 19, 2002 · Bexar County, Texas

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$500K

Damage as recorded

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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

Tornado number one, an F0 on the Fujita Scale, formed near 715 pm at the intersection of Greenwood Road and Gridley Road. It moved toward the southeast for one mile, then dissipated. The path width was 20 yards. It damaged roofs and walls of mobile homes and houses, took large limbs off trees, and showed a great variation in direction in how it tossed the debris. It dissipated at 717 pm.

Began near Von Ormy (29.3167, -98.8000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Bexar County F1 Bexar County F1 Bexar County F1 Bexar County F0 Bexar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5285453. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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