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EF0 tornado in Pecos County, Texas

Tornado May 7, 2019 · Pecos County, Texas

EF0

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

A thunderstorm produced a tornado approximately 13 miles north of Fort Stockton, just east of State Highway 18 over open country. The tornado became rain-wrapped which caused difficulty in viewing the entire life cycle of the tornado. The tornado continued to around 12 miles north northeast of Fort Stockton. No damage was reported with this tornado. The peak wind was estimated to be around 80 mph.

The wider storm

An upper level trough was over Arizona and New Mexico with a dryline across parts of southeast New Mexico and West Texas. Very good moisture and instability were present to the east of the dryline. Good wind shear (changing wind direction and speed with height) was present as well as an area of increase in upper level winds (upper jet) which resulted in an increase in upper lift. The combination of good lift, moisture, instability, and wind shear contributed to thunderstorms with large hail, strong winds, and a tornado across parts of West Texas.

Began near Coyanosa (31.0776, -102.8450).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Pecos County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 816586. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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