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Tornado in Kent County, Texas

Tornado June 1, 2018 · Kent County, Texas

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Not rated

0.0 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Two separate reports of a very brief tornado were received about five miles south of Jayton. A storm spotter was able to photograph the tornado in the fading twilight. The tornado remained over open land.

The wider storm

Very hot temperatures characterized by highs of 102 to 107 degrees coupled with a dryline focused high based thunderstorm development near the Lubbock area this afternoon. As these storms moved east into richer moisture in Crosby County, one storm escalated significantly in intensity. This supercell thunderstorm delivered major wind and hail damage to Ralls and continued to move east through Crosbyton where several utility poles were downed. The storm then turned more southeast and struck Spur with very large hail before producing a small, brief tornado over open land south of Jayton. The greatest destruction occurred on the west side of Ralls where three large cotton compress buildings were completely destroyed by straight line winds determined to be as high as 90 mph.

Began near Jayton Kent Co Arpt (33.1300, -100.5400).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 748110. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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