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EF0 tornado in Houston County, Texas

Tornado May 11, 2021 · Houston County, Texas

EF0

Rating

0.0 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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 funnel cloud was sighted from Eastham Prison to near Weldon. A brief tornado touchdown was observed by a prison employee with swirling dirt below the funnel cloud. There was no damage.

The wider storm

A lone thunderstorm in the morning uprooted numerous trees in parts of Polk County. More widespread thunderstorms in afternoon produced multiple reports of funnel clouds, hail and wind damage. Two brief tornadoes were also reported.

Began near Weldon (30.9800, -95.6300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Liberty County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 957399. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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