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F2 tornado in Cherokee County, Texas

Tornado April 6, 2003 · Cherokee County, Texas

Rating

38.2 mi

Whole path

220 yd

Path width

$9.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 220 yards (0.12 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 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 supercell thunderstorm moved northeast across east extreme east central Cherokee County. Two mobile homes were damaged and numerous trees were twisted, broken and uprooted. This tornado moved into Rusk County, TX.

Began near Ponta (31.9000, -95.0500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5348724. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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