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F1 tornado in Randall County, Texas

Tornado June 21, 2004 · Randall County, Texas

F1
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$225K
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 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

The tornado caused damage to four homes at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 1541 and Nance Road. One home sustained major damage...losing the entire roof. The other three homes received minor damage. A boat and a horse trailer were also tossed around by the tornado and heavily damaged. No injuries were reported.

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.

Began near Canyon (34.9833, -101.8500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

7 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F0 Potter CountyF0 Potter CountyF0 Randall CountyF0 Randall CountyF0 Randall CountyF0 Randall CountyF0 Randall County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5410236. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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