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EF0 tornado in Colorado County, Texas

Tornado October 31, 2018 · Colorado County, Texas

EF0

Rating

1.4 mi

Path length

100 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.

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

There were multiple video accounts of a well-formed tornado moving through a field a few miles southeast of Eagle Lake.

The wider storm

Strong damaging wind gusts and one tornado occurred in association with the passage of a squall line of thunderstorms.

Began near Rayner Jct (29.5354, -96.2906).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Chambers County EF0 Brazoria County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 786919. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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