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F1 tornado in Tom Green County, Texas

Tornado March 19, 2002 · Tom Green County, Texas

Rating

4.0 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 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

A tornado traveled a 4 mile path across eastern Tom Green County, producing relatively minor damage. The tornado ripped part of a flat roof off of an outbuilding, threw several irrigation pipes a few hundred yards, and picked up and moved heavy steel pipes.

The wider storm

A supercell thunderstorm produced 3 tornadoes as it moved from San Angelo northeast to near Ballinger. Although the tornadoes produced minor damages, hail up to the size of golf balls that fell during the storm pounded the southern half of San Angelo, producing over $15 million in damage. Other storms produced quarter size hail and wind damage across parts of the Heartland and Northwest Hill Country.

Began near Veribest (31.4333, -100.3000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Tom Green County F0 Runnels County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5285803. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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