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F1 tornado in Nolan County, Texas

Tornado May 27, 2004 · Nolan County, Texas

Rating

2.9 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$208K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

An NWS survey team found evidence of tornado damage that extended from near Champion to about 3 miles east of Champion. Several power poles were snapped and a barn was totally destroyed. Irrigation equipment was also thrown about and twisted.

The wider storm

A cold front swept across west central Texas on the afternoon of the 27th. The worst damage was by far in Sweetwater, where golf ball size hail and winds of 80 mph left no home untouched on the south side of Sweetwater.

Began near Champion (32.3833, -100.6167).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F0 Taylor County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5396894. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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