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EF0 tornado in Tarrant County, Texas

Tornado March 8, 2016 · Tarrant County, Texas

EF0
Rating
1.9 mi
Path length
70 yd
Path width
$330K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 70 yards (0.04 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 survey crew from the National Weather Service found evidence of EF-1 damage on the northwest shore of Benbrook Lake, near the dam. The tornado first occurred near Stephens Drive, about one half mile east of US 377. This tornado took a general west to east track, crossing a portion of the lake. On the west side of the path, a marina was heavily damaged, especially the portion which served as a storage yard for boats. Approximately 20 boats were damaged or destroyed, along with several storage sheds. The tornado moved to the east, crossing the lake, before dissipating after causing tree damage on the Pecan Valley Municipal Golf Course.

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 Benbrook Lake (32.6547, -97.4828).

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 624243. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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