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F0 tornado in Randall County, Texas

Tornado May 25, 1999 · Randall County, Texas

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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 damaged an out building and the track was estimated.

The wider storm

A cold front moving slowly south across the southern Texas panhandle and a vigorous low pressure system in the upper atmosphere over the southwestern states helped to trigger a damaging hail outbreak across mainly the southern half of the Texas panhandle. The severe thunderstorms also produced high winds, flooding rainfall, and a few tornadoes along with the damaging large hail.

Began near Canyon (35.0700, -102.0200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F0 Randall County F0 Randall County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5694352. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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