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EF0 tornado in Fort Bend County, Texas

Tornado February 14, 2017 · Fort Bend County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 down near Dulles Ave north of Lexington Park Elementary but did little damage to the surrounding subdivision. A better defined damage path was found to the northeast in Brightwood Estates with several homes suffering minor damage to roofs and fences along the southwest to northeast track. Two chimneys were ripped off houses. Numerous witnesses observed swirling debris. Estimated peak winds were 80 mph.

The wider storm

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

Began near Smada (29.5920, -95.5819).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Fort Bend County EF1 Matagorda County EF0 Wharton County EF0 Brazoria County EF0 Fort Bend County EF0 Fort Bend County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 681496. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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