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F0 tornado in Swisher County, Texas

Tornado May 5, 2002 · Swisher County, Texas

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$2K

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 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

The tornado that went through Happy dissipated over southern Randall County. Shortly after this dissipation, the same supercell produced another tornado just to the south of the previous tornado's track. This tornado was reported by a storm chaser. An NWS storm survey team found snapped power poles and downed power lines on county roads just south of Farm-to-Market Road 1075, consistent with this report.

Began near Happy (34.7333, -101.7667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Swisher County 2 dead F1 Hall County F1 Hall County F1 Hall County F0 Castro County F0 Hall County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5296447. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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