F0 tornado — Fisher County, Texas

F0 tornado in Fisher County, Texas

Tornado May 4, 2002 · Fisher County, Texas

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 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 law enforcement officer reported a tornado on the ground for a short time. No structures were damaged from the tornado.

The wider storm

A supercell thunderstorm developed over San Angelo and moved east for four and a half hours over portions of Tom Green, Concho, McCulloch and San Saba counties. This storm produced a total of five tornadoes. These tornadoes for the most part remained over open country, with only two structures receiving damage to the northeast of Brady. This storm also produced a tremendous amount of hail, with numerous reports of golfball size hail with many trees completely stripped of their leaves. There were a few reports of of hail up to softball size in McCulloch County. Other thunderstorms formed over the Big Country, one of which produced a brief tornado near Roby in Fisher county. Hail up to the size of baseballs was also noted with several of these storms.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5294271. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F0 tornado in Fisher County, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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