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EF2 tornado in Newton County, Texas

Tornado April 22, 2020 · Newton County, Texas

EF2

Rating

36.4 mi

Whole path

600 yd

Path width

$475K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Jasper County → Newton County → Vernon Parish, Louisiana; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 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 tornado removed the roof from a mobile home, otherwise trees along its path were damaged or snapped. The tornado debarked trees at times.

The wider storm

A cold front drifted into the area and stalled while short waves passed aloft. Severe weather occurred over multiple days with hail, wind damage, and tornadoes reported.

Began near Jamestown (30.9349, -93.8661).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 887014. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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