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EF0 tornado in Glasscock County, Texas

Tornado May 22, 2016 · Glasscock County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 thunderstorm moved across Glasscock County and produced a tornado near Lees, TX. This tornado developed around 7:38 pm CDT approximately four miles southeast of Lomax. This short-lived tornado traveled a distance of approximately a half of a mile, dissipating by 7:40 pm CDT. With no damage indicators, this tornado is rated as an EF-0 with an estimated path length of 50 yards.

The wider storm

West Texas was under the backside of a ridge with a dryline across the area which provided lift. Good instability, moisture convergence, and high convective available potential energy was present along and to the east of the dryline. Wind shear was also high over the area, and a low level jet of high winds allowed for storms to continue into the late evening hours. These conditions contributed to thunderstorms that produced large hail, strong wind, flash flooding, and tornadoes across the Permian Basin.

Began near Lees (32.0800, -101.5654).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Howard CountyEF3 Glasscock CountyEF2 Glasscock CountyEF2 Glasscock CountyEF0 Howard CountyEF0 Howard County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 631193. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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