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EF0 tornado in Harris County, Texas

Tornado May 3, 2019 · Harris County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

15 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 15 yards (0.01 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 video was taken of a brief tornado touchdown just southwest of the town of Tomball.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms produced hail along with some wind gust and tornado damage.

Began near Tomball (30.0800, -95.6500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 830405. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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