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EF0 tornado in Harris County, Texas

Tornado April 27, 2016 · Harris County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

Death

$200K

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

NWS surveyed storm damage in the Willow Creek area. A west-northwest to east-southeast damage path was found just less than a half mile long. Numerous large trees were uprooted, several onto homes. An elderly woman died with a large tree crashed into her mobile home. Soils were extremely soft from recent rains and flooding.

The wider storm

A late night through early morning storm system moved east and southeast across the area and produced strong winds and an EF-0 tornado.

Began near Houston Hooks Arpt (30.0982, -95.5511).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 633234. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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