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EF1 tornado in Wise County, Texas

Tornado May 7, 2015 · Wise County, Texas

EF1

Rating

3.4 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

Injury

$250K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

A National Weather Service damage survey crew found evidence of EF-1 and EF-0 damage across a three mile swath in southeastern Wise County. This multiple vortex tornado occurred over mainly open land, but destroyed two mobile homes, and damaging twelve others. Several power poles and power lines were damaged in the New Fairview area, between the city of Rhome and Decatur.

The wider storm

A cold front moved south out of the Texas panhandle on May 6th, and was draped across north Texas on the 7th and 8th. The front stalled across the northwestern sections of north Texas and combined to produce severe thunderstorms including large hail, tornadoes, and flash flooding. Flash flooding across Cooke County caused significant impacts, including a late night train derailment.

Began near Ford (33.1468, -97.4658).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Denton County EF0 Wise County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 570051. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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