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EF0 tornado in Wise County, Texas

Tornado May 7, 2015 · Wise County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.3 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

Amateur radio operators reported a brief tornado to the north-northwest of Runaway Bay, near the Sid Richardson Boy Scout Camp. The tornado was on the ground for a brief time, and produced minimal damage to a few trees.

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 Lake Bridgeport (33.2071, -97.8899).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Wise County EF1 Denton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 570054. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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