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F1 tornado in Bexar County, Texas

Tornado March 19, 2002 · Bexar County, Texas

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

60 yd

Path width

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 60 yards (0.03 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 six, struck just east of Somerset on SH16, about one mile north of Loop 1604. It was rated F1 on the Fujita Scale, and tracked toward the southeast. It damaged a large barn and several outbuildings at a construction site as it moved approximately one-half mile. It was estimated at 60 yards wide.

Began near Somerset (29.2333, -98.5833).

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 F0 Bexar County F0 Bexar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5285554. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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