EF1 tornado in Waller County, Texas

Tornado May 27, 2020 · Waller County, Texas

EF1

Rating

2.2 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

This tornado with estimated peak winds of 90 mph had a well defined damage path. Numerous trees were uprooted with some trunks snapped. A roof was taken off a barn. There was other straight line wind damage in the area.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed and produce wind damage, hail and few tornadoes.

Began near Howth (30.2073, -96.0562).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Harris County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 894411. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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