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F0 tornado in Cass County, Texas

Tornado May 14, 2003 · Cass County, Texas

Rating

78.3 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through McCurtain County, Oklahoma → Bowie County → Cass County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 strong thunderstorm moved rapidly southeast across McCurtain County, OK into Bowie and Cass County, TX. This thunderstorm also produced a strong microburst in McCurtain County southwest of Idabel, OK and again southeast of Maud, TX located in Bowie County. Numerous small trees and limbs were either snapped or pushed over along the track. No homes or other structures were in the direct path of this tornado.

Began near Queen City (33.2333, -94.2167).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5353104. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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