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EF0 tornado in Reagan County, Texas

Tornado June 18, 2017 · Reagan County, Texas

EF0

Rating

1.8 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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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

A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a landspout. The landspout was observed in open country and no damage was reported so it was rated as an EF-0.

The wider storm

There was an upper level trough over the Great Lakes/Mississippi Valley region with a cold front that had passed through portions of the Permian Basin. The front created a temperature contrast between the central and northern Permian Basin. This front along with hot, unstable conditions south of the front allowed for thunderstorms to develop. These storms produced a couple of landspouts and a tornado across the southern Permian Basin and Lower Trans Pecos.

Began near Big Lake (31.2614, -101.3982).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Upton County EF0 Reagan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 704354. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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