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EF0 tornado in Hill County, Texas

Tornado May 10, 2015 · Hill County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

An amateur radio operator captured a brief tornado on camera at 5:03 PM CDT outside of Peoria. The tornado lasted only a few minutes, and produced minor damage to farmland.

The wider storm

An active Spring weather pattern led to numerous severe thunderstorms, many of which produced tornadoes, across north Texas during Mother's Day Weekend. The prolonged period of strong to severe storms was made possible by a slow-moving upper level low pressure system which moved east from the Rockies through the Southern Plains. Activity began on Friday and continued through Mother's Day evening.

Began near Peoria (31.9874, -97.2682).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Van Zandt County 2 deadEF3 Eastland County 1 deadEF1 Denton CountyEF1 Hamilton CountyEF1 Grayson CountyEF0 Cooke CountyEF0 Eastland CountyEF0 Erath CountyEF0 Denton CountyEF0 Kaufman CountyEF0 Kaufman CountyEF0 Hill County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 586300. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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