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EF0 tornado in Sherman County, Texas

Tornado April 21, 2007 · Sherman County, Texas

EF0
Rating
8.0 mi
Path length
700 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 700 yards (0.40 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

The tornado touched down in open country just north of the Moore County line approximately twenty-two and a half miles southeast of Stratford at 1958 CST. The tornado traveled northeast and dissipated at 2012 CST just north of Farm to Market Road 1573 approximately twenty-one and a half miles east southeast of Stratford. No damage or injuries were reported.

The wider storm

Numerous severe thunderstorms producing large hail...damaging winds...and tornadoes moved north and northeast across the western and central Texas panhandle during the evening hours. The only injuries occurred in Cactus from a tornado...however no fatalities were reported.

Began near Lautz (36.0693, -101.7447).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 68314. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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