F0 tornado — Tarrant County, Texas

F0 tornado in Tarrant County, Texas

Tornado April 5, 2003 · Tarrant County, Texas

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

$2K

Crop damage

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 small short lived tornado did minor roof damage and broke numerous tree branches.

The wider storm

On April 5th, a lone supercell thunderstorm developed around 300 pm southeast of Claremont, in Kent County. This storm quickly became severe, and by 500 pm had moved eastward into western Young County in North Central Texas. This storm produced large hail, straight line damaging winds, and at least four weak tornadoes across North Central Texas from 510 pm cdt until 1050 pm cdt. This storm quickly dissipated after the last severe weather report at 1050 pm. The damage path across North Texas extended from Padgett, in western Young County, to west of Sulphur Springs in Hopkins County, a distance of approximately 192 miles. This was one of the costliest storms on record to hit North Texas, with damage estimates approximately 885 million dollars.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5353480. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F0 tornado in Tarrant County, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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