EF0 tornado — Fort Bend County, Texas

EF0 tornado in Fort Bend County, Texas

Tornado February 14, 2017 · Fort Bend County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$500K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 on the west side of Crabb River Road about a mile north of FM 762 and then crossed Crabb River Road into the Tara subdivision where several homes suffered roof, fence and tree damage. Spotty roof and tree damage continued generally eastward across the entire subdivision and into the western section of Greatwood in a well defined path. Security footage from nearby Valasquez Elementary showed very strong shifting winds near the tornado. A police officer experienced very strong winds from the west, then the passage of the small tornado south of the school suggesting perhaps a satellite tornado on the southern flank of the larger circulation may have been responsible for the more significant damage. Estimated peak winds were 80 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 681506. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Fort Bend County, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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