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EF0 tornado in Limestone County, Texas

Tornado January 16, 2017 · Limestone County, Texas

EF0

Rating

3.1 mi

Path length

250 yd

Path width

$300K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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 crew found evidence of a tornado outside of the city of Mexia, damaging numerous buildings on the campus of the Mexia State Supported Living Center. The warehouse on the south end of the campus suffered the most damage, as the metal building warehouse lost much of its roof and back wall.

The wider storm

Tornadoes occurred. Read the title.

Began near Tehuacana (31.6900, -96.5500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Coryell County EF1 Bosque County EF1 Hill County EF0 Johnson County EF0 Dallas County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 666470. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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