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EF1 tornado in McCulloch County, Texas

Tornado April 12, 2020 · McCulloch County, Texas

EF1

Rating

5.1 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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

An EF-1 Tornado touched down near Highway 87 about a mile north of Melvin and continued northeast. It mostly uprooted large Oak Trees or snapped their trunks. It killed a calf and destroyed several

deer feeders. The tornado overturned a truck and cattle feeder. It damaged the large doors on a barn. In addition, it knocked over a fence. Special thanks to ranchers who assisted with this damage survey.

The wider storm

A strong upper level disturbance interacted with an increasingly unstable airmass to produce supercell thunderstorms. These supercell thunderstorms resulted in many reports of large hail and damaging winds on April 11.

A couple of long track supercells spawned at least two tornadoes shortly after midnight on Easter Sunday April 12. One twister tracked near Melvin and stayed over ranch land, while another tornado tracked south of Ozona and also remained mostly over ranch land. At the beginning of it's life cycle, the tornado in Crockett County struck a residence and resulted in EF-0 damage.

Began near Melvin (31.2145, -99.5846).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Crockett County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 888840. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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