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EF0 tornado in Mitchell County, Texas

Tornado March 28, 2017 · Mitchell County, Texas

EF0

Rating

4.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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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 Mitchell County and produced a tornado about 20 miles south of Colorado City. This tornado was located just west of Highway 208 and did not produce any damage so it was rated as an EF-0.

The wider storm

A deep upper low was over New Mexico with strong lift and instability over southeast New Mexico and West Texas. There was a dryline and cold front that moved across the area, and there was a lot of wind shear in the atmosphere. Good moisture was present to the east of the dryline. This combination of moisture, lift, instability, and wind shear contributed to thunderstorms that produced large hail, severe wind gusts, and tornadoes.

Began near Spade (32.0926, -100.8490).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Glasscock County EF0 Upton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 681470. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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