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EF0 tornado in Leon County, Texas

Tornado April 13, 2019 · Leon County, Texas

EF0

Rating

32.5 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Milam County → Robertson County → Leon County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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

This tornado is a continuation from Milam and Robertson counties. After entering from eastern Robertson County, the tornado dissipated in extreme western Leon County, 4 miles south-southwest of Marquez. Only tree damage was observed along the path in Leon County.

The wider storm

A strong upper level trough generated scattered to numerous thunderstorms across North and Central Texas on Saturday April 13. Storms were mainly hail producers early in the day, but damaging winds and a few tornadoes occurred across the southern counties in the vicinity of a stationary front in the late morning and afternoon hours.

Began near Venetia (31.1683, -96.2985).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Leon County EFU Robertson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 815345. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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