EF0 tornado — Wharton County, Texas

EF0 tornado in Wharton County, Texas

Tornado February 14, 2017 · Wharton County, Texas

EF0

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

This EF-0 tornado touched just west of the intersection of North Richmond Street and Highway 59 Business along the north side of town and continued east for about a mile. A broad swath of uprooted and damaged trees and downed power lines around 200 yards in width continued to near County Road 135. Tree fall damage was mostly towards the west-northwest with a few along the left portion of the track falling towards the southeast in a convergent pattern. Nearly all the damage was along the right side of the track which is consistent with a fast moving, weak tornado. Separate swath of damage to homes and trees about 1 to 2 miles away near the Junior High School seemed more consistent with a microburst to the right of the tornado track. Estimated peak winds were 75 mph.

The wider storm

Several morning tornadoes developed as a storm system moved eastward across the state.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 681491. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Wharton County, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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