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F0 tornado in Polk County, Texas

Tornado March 30, 2002 · Polk County, Texas

Rating

49.0 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

Injuries

$6.2M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Polk County → Angelina County → Nacogdoches County → San Augustine County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

Sheriff reported a tornado path with trees down, in rural northern Polk county east of Highway 59, from FM 1987 to the county line, then crossing into Angelina county. Confirmed by Shreveport NWS during their survey.

Began near Corrigan (31.1000, -94.7667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Harris County F0 Fort Bend County F0 Wharton County F0 Wharton County F0 Fort Bend County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5292129. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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