F0 tornado — Potter County, Texas

F0 tornado in Potter County, Texas

Tornado June 21, 2004 · Potter County, Texas

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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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

The tornado touched down over open country just north of Interstate 40. The path length and path width were estimated. No damage or injuries occurred with this tornado.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms containing large and damaging hail along with a few tornadoes and flooding rainfall moved across the Texas panhandle during the evening hours. The hardest hit areas from the large hail and tornadoes were from northwest Amarillo to the northern sections of Canyon where the hospital district and Baptist St. Anthony's hospital sustained major damage to windows. A tornado just east of Canyon produced major damage. The total cost of the hail was approximately one hundred and seventy-five million dollars. The Insurance Council of Texas has ranked this event as the sixth costliest hail storm in Texas history. No injuries were reported from the tornadoes and hail.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5410173. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F0 tornado in Potter County, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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