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F2 tornado in Angelina County, Texas

Tornado April 6, 2003 · Angelina County, Texas

Rating

13.7 mi

Path length

440 yd

Path width

$2.5M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 440 yards (0.25 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 classic supercell thunderstorm moved northeastward across Angelina County, TX into Nacogdoches County, TX producing a strong tornado. Numerous structures were damaged near Central, TX, northwest of Lufkin, TX. Otherwise damage was confined to uprooted and snapped trees.

Began near Pollok (31.4167, -94.9333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F2 Nacogdoches County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5348728. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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