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F1 tornado in Young County, Texas

Tornado October 2, 1998 · Young County, Texas

Rating

7.0 mi

Path length

400 yd

Path width

Injuries

$700K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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

An intermittent tornado tracked from northwest of Graham to southeast of Graham before ending on the Young-Jack county line just west of Bryson in Jack county. Sixty buildings were damaged, two mobile homes were destroyed and a radio tower was blown down.

Began near Graham (33.1500, -98.6700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Navarro County 1 dead F2 Coryell County F0 Navarro County F0 Hill County F0 Hunt County F0 Hopkins County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5671809. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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