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EF0 tornado in Walker County, Texas

Tornado April 2, 2017 · Walker County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$15K

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

At the beginning of its path, the tornado deposited a barn across and onto Jim White Road before it tracked across an open field and damaged trees.

The wider storm

A storm system produced large hail, strong winds, a tornado and flash flooding.

Began near Country Campus (30.8242, -95.4322).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 693184. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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