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EF0 tornado in Hemphill County, Texas

Tornado May 27, 2015 · Hemphill County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
400 yd
Path width
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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 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

This tornado was reported by multiple storm chasers and also touched down within the damage path of the first EF-2 tornado. Eyewitness reports indicate that this tornado stayed over open fields and cause no additional damage.

The wider storm

One of the more active severe weather days of the spring season brought large hail, bigger than baseballs in some cases, flooding, and tornadoes to the Texas Panhandle. One persistent intense supercell moved slowly across Hemphill County near Canadian and produced three tornadoes, one of which caused three injuries and was rated EF-2. Flooding from this slow moving storm closed Highway 83 north of Canadian during the evening. More flooding occurred further south in Armstrong County which caused road closures.

Began near Canadian Hemphill Ar (35.9790, -100.4220).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Hemphill CountyEF1 Hemphill CountyEF1 Hemphill County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 581931. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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