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EF0 tornado in Dawson County, Texas

Tornado May 18, 2021 · Dawson County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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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 thunderstorm produced a tornado about two miles east of Arvana. There were multiple reports of a funnel cloud with rotating dust underneath it for three to five minutes. The tornado remained over open fields with no damage reported. The tornado was rated as an EF-0.

The wider storm

An upper level low was to the north of the region. A weak cold front was approaching the northern Permian Basin. A dryline was across the area and moisture was high to the east of this dryline. These conditions resulted in thunderstorms that produced hail and two tornadoes across the northern Permian Basin.

Began near Arvana (32.8057, -101.8854).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Scurry County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 954814. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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