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EF0 tornado in Taylor County, Texas

Tornado April 9, 2008 · Taylor County, Texas

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Storm chasers reported a brief tornado just west of Tye off Interstate 20.

The wider storm

The combination of a strong upper level storm system and a dryline triggered widespread severe thunderstorms which moved east across West Central Texas Wednesday afternoon into early Thursday morning. During the late afternoon hours, isolated supercell thunderstorms developed across the Big Country along I-20 where storm chasers reported a couple brief tornadoes. At around midnight, a line of severe thunderstorms developed across the western sections of West Central Texas. As this line moved rapidly east, severe thunderstorms within the line evolved into supercells with strong rotation that went on to produce multiple tornadoes. There were also reports of straight line wind damage across West Central Texas from this line of severe thunderstorms.

Began near Tye (32.4900, -99.9200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

7 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Tom Green CountyEF1 Tom Green CountyEF1 Brown CountyEF0 Taylor CountyEF0 Tom Green CountyEF0 Tom Green CountyEF0 Irion County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 93190. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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