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EF1 tornado in Denton County, Texas

Tornado March 8, 2016 · Denton County, Texas

EF1
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
40 yd
Path width
$90K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 National Weather Service survey crew found evidence of an EF1 QLCS tornado in the city limits of The Colony. This tornado was brief, and damaged 6 homes and several power lines in the city.

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 Carney (33.0965, -96.8695).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Parker CountyEF1 Erath CountyEF1 Navarro CountyEF0 Erath CountyEF0 Hood CountyEF0 Hood CountyEF0 Tarrant CountyEF0 Lampasas CountyEF0 Henderson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 624245. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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