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EF0 tornado in Floyd County, Texas

Tornado April 22, 2015 · Floyd County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Several storm spotters observed a brief tornado over open land about two miles west of Lockney. Detailed video from a storm chaser indicated this tornado was preceded by a well-defined rotating wall cloud. No damage survey was conducted as this tornado remained over open land.

The wider storm

Early this morning, a series of outflow boundaries moved south across the southern Texas Panhandle and much of the Rolling Plains. The most organized of these boundaries would eventually retreat north before stalling from near Hereford (Deaf Smith County, WFO AMA) southeast to Paducah (Cottle County). This boundary provided the focus for an intense and long-lived supercell that developed west of Hereford by mid-afternoon. This supercell proceeded to move southeast and impact areas from Happy and Tulia (Swisher County) southeast to Silverton (Briscoe County), Matador (Motley County) and Grow (King County) with destructive hail, downburst winds and torrential rainfall rates of one half inch in five minutes. By early evening, a second supercell developed west of Plainview (Hale County) and crawled eastward accompanied by hail up to golf ball size and a brief tornado over open land near Lockney (Floyd County).

Began near Aiken (34.1400, -101.5600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 564235. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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