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EF0 tornado in Sabine County, Texas

Tornado March 30, 2008 · Sabine County, Texas

EF0
Rating
1.6 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$1K
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

An EF0 tornado with winds of 65 to 70 mph occurred approximately 1.5 miles southwest of Milam, Texas in Sabine County, Texas along a path approximately 50 yards wide and 2 miles long. Several large trees were snapped off or uprooted along the path which originated along Dorsey Road extending northeastward across Hwy. 21 before lifting. Smaller limbs were broken along the path as well.

The wider storm

Widespread flooding was reported along and south of a northward moving warm front across the lower Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn country of Deep East Texas into the piney woods of northeast Texas. These storms trained across the same area for most of the pre-dawn hours of the 30th as well as during the day. Large hail and damaging thunderstorm wind gusts were reported across portions of the region as well with isolated tornadoes reported across portions of Deep East Texas as well as west central Louisiana during the afternoon hours of March 30th.

Began near Milam (31.4195, -93.8499).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 85467. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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