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EF0 tornado in Hood County, Texas

Tornado March 8, 2016 · Hood County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
160 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 160 yards (0.09 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 was captured by broadcast media to the east of the city of Tolar. This tornado began near a mobile home park, damaging three homes. The tornado then crossed U.S. Highway 377 over an open field before dissipating.

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.

Began near Tolar (32.4014, -97.8896).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 623769. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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