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EF0 tornado in Tarrant County, Texas

Tornado March 23, 2016 · Tarrant County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.6 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 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 National Weather Service damage survey team determined an EF-0 tornado briefly occurred on the night of March 23rd. This QLCS tornado spun up on the south side of US 287, before making a north to northeast track across the highway, damaging several storage buildings and two homes. Damage was limited at the homes, but the storage facility lost several awnings, overhead doors, and fences.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed late Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday evening along a dryline as it surged east to the Interstate 35 corridor. Several of these storms became severe, producing damaging winds, hail and one tornado. The tornadic storm in northern Tarrant County proceeded to drop large hail as it moved east into northern Dallas and southern Collin County, creating around 700 million dollars in overall hail damage.

Began near Hicks (32.9404, -97.3815).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 625296. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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