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EF1 tornado in Harris County, Texas

Tornado April 7, 2019 · Harris County, Texas

EF1

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

This EF-1 tornado snapped numerous street poles and destroyed a building when its west facing wall collapsed. There was considerable tree damage with large limbs stripped and trunks snapped.

The wider storm

A storm system moved across the area during the day and produced large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.

Began near Alta Vista (29.6502, -95.2018).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Montgomery County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 807377. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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