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EF0 tornado in Gonzales County, Texas

Tornado September 4, 2007 · Gonzales County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 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

A tornado touched down twice near SH97. It destroyed some chicken houses. The tornado was rated EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

The wider storm

An upper level trough moved across South Central Texas producing showers and thunderstorms which primarily caused flash flooding in the western and central counties. There was also one storm which produced a weak tornado.

Began near Gonzales (29.5000, -97.3537).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 59495. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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