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EF2 tornado in Houston County, Texas

Tornado April 13, 2019 · Houston County, Texas

EF2

Rating

6.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

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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 EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 EF-2 tornado produced intermittent damage along its track including taking a metal roof off of a home. The most severe damage occurred on the northeast end of the track where trees were stripped of limbs, vehicles were tossed and stacked upon one another and a double wide trailer home was destroyed.

The wider storm

A storm system moving eastward across the state produced several tornadoes, some wind damage and large hail.

Began near Post Oak (31.0789, -95.5773).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Houston County 2 dead EF1 Houston County EF0 Houston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 818694. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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