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F1 tornado in Childress County, Texas

Tornado May 5, 2002 · Childress County, Texas

Rating

6.0 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$6K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Hall County → Childress County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 storm chaser followed a tornado from just east of Memphis (in Hall County) to about 13 miles west of Loco. The tornado snapped trees and power poles and downed power lines.

Began near Loco (34.7167, -100.4167).

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 F0 Castro County F0 Swisher County F0 Hall County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5296544. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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