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EF1 tornado in Houston County, Texas

Tornado April 13, 2019 · Houston County, Texas

EF1

Rating

8.9 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

Injuries

$300K

Damage as recorded

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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 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

The survey discovered tornado damage with trees either uprooted or snapped along a path parallel to County Road 1170. A double wide trailer was destroyed and pushed back into a wooded area at the end of the tornado path. The four occupants of the trailer were injured. Damage scar apparent on satellite data. Aerial photographs also help define path.

The wider storm

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

Began near Kennard (31.3846, -95.2020).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Houston County 2 dead EF2 Houston County EF0 Houston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 818696. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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