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EF0 tornado in Live Oak County, Texas

Tornado May 31, 2016 · Live Oak County, Texas

EF0

Rating

2.7 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

Weak waterspout over northeast part of Choke Canyon Reservoir moved onshore.

The wider storm

An upper level disturbance moving across South Texas, combined with a very moist and unstable atmosphere, produced strong to severe thunderstorms across South Texas on May 31st. The strongest storms crossed Kleberg County and produced 3 tornadoes, very strong winds, large hail, and torrential rainfall.

Began near Simmons (28.4880, -98.2871).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Kleberg County EF1 Kleberg County EF0 Kleberg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 639742. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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