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EF0 tornado in Harris County, Texas

Tornado October 31, 2015 · Harris County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.8 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$75K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 brief EF-0 tornado caused damage to homes near the intersection of Clear Lake City Boulevard and El Dorado Boulevard. The estimated peak wind was 85 mph.

The wider storm

Tornadoes formed along a near coastal county warm frontal boundary that was downstream of a central Texas cold front.

Began near Ellington Field (29.6015, -95.1286).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Brazoria CountyEF2 Harris CountyEF2 Brazoria CountyEF1 Brazoria CountyEF1 Brazoria CountyEF0 Brazoria CountyEF0 Brazoria CountyEF0 Brazoria CountyEF0 Harris CountyEF0 Harris County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 602180. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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