F1 tornado — Tom Green County, Texas

F1 tornado in Tom Green County, Texas

Tornado May 26, 1998 · Tom Green County, Texas

Rating

3.6 mi

Path length

1,936 yd

Path width

Injuries

$1.3M

Damage as recorded

$500K

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 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

A tornado destroyed 2 mobile homes, injuring two of the occupants inside one of them

The wider storm

A supercell developed just north of San Angelo near Grape Creek and drifted very slowly eastward towards Veribest in northeast Tom Green County. This supercell spawned at least 2 tornadoes, including one that destroyed two mobile homes and damaged 15 homes near Veribest. Two people were injured in one of the mobile homes. Numerous farm buildings and other farm machinery were also heavily damaged. Hail of the size of baseballs and torrential rainfall accompanied this storm, causing extensive flooding across the Grape Creek and Quail Valley areas. Later in the evening, a line of severe storms swept through much of the Concho Valley and Heartland, bringing damaging winds and up to golf ball size hail.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5640942. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F1 tornado in Tom Green County, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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