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EF1 tornado in Brown County, Texas

Tornado April 10, 2008 · Brown County, Texas

EF1
Rating
1.5 mi
Path length
125 yd
Path width
$150K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 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

The NWS storm survey revealed an EF1 tornado with winds estimated at 90 mph, damaging grain silos, roofs and overturning a trailer.

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 Bangs (31.7039, -99.0707).

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 CountyEF0 Taylor CountyEF0 Taylor CountyEF0 Tom Green CountyEF0 Tom Green CountyEF0 Irion County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 93234. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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