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EF0 tornado in Williamson County, Texas

Tornado June 9, 2019 · Williamson County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 small tornado touched down near County Road 287 southwest of Liberty Hill. Numerous trees were damaged in the three quarters of a mile path. Winds are estimated to have been near 75 mph.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed along a cold front that moved through the region. These storms formed in an unstable airmass with high CAPE and steep mid-level lapse rates leading to large hail and widespread damaging wind gusts many of which were estimated to be over 70 mph.

Began near Liberty Hill (30.6289, -98.0326).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 823728. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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