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EF0 tornado in Bee County, Texas

Tornado April 7, 2019 · Bee County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$1.2M
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

The tornado touched down on Chase Field southeast of Beeville and traveled about a half of a mile across the airport property before dissipating. The tornado damaged around 50 unsecured recreational vehicles (RVs) and severely damaged or destroyed 12 RVs. Several hangars had roof damage with asphalt roofing materials blown off on to the airport tarmac. Several unsecured, full sized single-wide mobile homes were blown over also.

The wider storm

A strong upper level disturbance moved out of northern Mexico into South Texas from the evening of the 6th into the morning hours of the 7th. Strong to severe thunderstorms developed over the Brush Country during the early morning hours of the 7th. The storms moved into the coastal plains around daybreak on the 7th. Storms produced damaging winds near Beeville and Corpus Christi. A weak tornado damaged trailers near Beeville.

Began near (nir)nas Chase Fld B (28.3691, -97.6643).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 810040. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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