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F0 tornado in Taylor County, Texas

Tornado May 27, 2004 · Taylor County, Texas

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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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 weak tornado, possibly a gustnado was observed at the Big Country Truck Stop just east of Merkel. Several eyewitness accounts report seeing the twister move across the far end of the parking lot and then move across Interstate 20. Other than power poles being snapped, no damage was noted.

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 Merkel (32.4667, -100.0000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Nolan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5396901. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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