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EF0 tornado in Archer County, Texas

Tornado May 16, 2015 · Archer County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

A video of a waterspout over Lake Diversion was relayed from a resident through KFDX TV. No damage was reported.

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 Holliday (33.8200, -98.9339).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Hardeman County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 584393. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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