EF0 tornado in Carson County, Texas

Tornado June 19, 2020 · Carson County, Texas

EF0

Rating

1.1 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Carson County → Carson County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 storm chaser documented a landspout tornado touchdown 3 miles west of Groom, crossing Interstate-40 before dissipating just north of the freeway. The rating assigned was EF-0 due to the lack of damage to any structures impacted.

The wider storm

Scattered thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and early evening along and ahead of an outflow-enhanced cold front. Storms developed within a strongly unstable but weakly sheared airmass. Scattered severe thunderstorms occurred over the south-central and central Texas Panhandle, with isolated coverage across the northwest and southeast Panhandle. One of the strongest storms produced a hail swath with up to 2 inch stones across the city of Amarillo generally along I-40. This was one three separate storm that produced severe hail in Amarillo on this day. In addition, several small and weak landspout type tornadoes were reported with these storms.

Began near Groom (35.1989, -101.1641).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 890154. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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