EF0 tornado — Erath County, Texas

EF0 tornado in Erath County, Texas

Tornado March 8, 2016 · Erath County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$130K

Damage as recorded

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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

The Dublin Police Department reported damage from a tornado early in the morning of March 9th. The tornado was short lived, and produced minor damage to approximately ten buildings in downtown Dublin.

The wider storm

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system. Storms developed along a dry line Monday afternoon, many of which produced severe weather or flash flooding or both. Another area of storms formed ahead of the upper trough over northwest Texas Monday night and pushed east-southeast across the area Tuesday, producing severe weather and flooding. A third round of storms produced flooding across mainly the southern half of the region Tuesday night into Wednesday.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 623766. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Erath County, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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