EF0 tornado in Wilbarger County, Texas

Tornado May 16, 2015 · Wilbarger County, Texas

EF0

Rating

40.4 mi

Whole path

1,200 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Hardeman County → Wilbarger County → Jackson County, Oklahoma → Wilbarger County → Jackson County, Oklahoma → Tillman County, Oklahoma → Kiowa County, Oklahoma; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1,200 yards (0.68 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

The tornado crossed from Jackson County Oklahoma into far northern Wilbarger County between Odell TX and Elmer OK, before crossing the Red River for the third time back into Jackson County Oklahoma. Again, no damage is known to have occurred in this portion of Wilbarger County.

The wider storm

With an upper low traversing the region, a cold front stationed over the panhandles, and a developing dryline, storms developed out in the panhandles early on the 16th and made their way eastward across western north Texas through the day. Toward evening, when the severe weather occurred, the front surged eastward with a line of storms forming along it.

Began near Odell (34.4153, -99.3914).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Archer County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 582220. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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