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EF0 tornado in Lipscomb County, Texas

Tornado November 16, 2015 · Lipscomb County, Texas

EF0
Rating
4.7 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 tornado crossed Highway 23 just south of Kiowa Creek. Little to no damage was observed due to lack of structures in the rural location. The tornado was rated EF-0.

The wider storm

A powerful storm system brought significant severe weather to the region. Tornadoes, damaging winds, and large hail accompanied thunderstorms that formed during the afternoon hours and persisted into the evening. This was a very unusual event for late fall in the Central High Plains. One significant factor in this anomalous event was the presence of an unusual amount of moisture for mid-November, contributing to relatively high values of instability. No tornadoes had previously been documented in the Texas Panhandle during the month of November.

Began near Booker (36.3220, -100.5430).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Gray CountyEF3 Gray CountyEF2 Carson CountyEF1 Gray CountyEF1 Hemphill CountyEF1 Ochiltree CountyEF1 Ochiltree CountyEF0 Ochiltree CountyEF0 Carson CountyEF0 Potter CountyEF0 Armstrong CountyEF0 Hutchinson CountyEF0 Roberts CountyEF0 Roberts County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 608883. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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