October 22 Episode NarrativeIsolated thunderstorms developed across North Texas. Many areas remained dry, but some locations received rain amounts in excess of 1 inch.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
October 22 Episode NarrativeIsolated thunderstorms developed across North Texas. Many areas remained dry, but some locations received rain amounts in excess of 1 inch. One particularly intense cell moved through Eastland county, spawning a tornado which did some damage as it moved across the area. Another cell moved across the eastern portions of Tarrant county, causing some damage to trees.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado touched down just south of town and moved north-northeast with intermittent touchdowns for 2.5 miles. Damage was done to an abandoned turkey barn, three sheds, a house, a mobile home, a car and power lines.
Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree that was 2 feet in diameter. Eight inch limbs were broken off other trees.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2000Warnings in Texas, October 2000
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5160236, 5160237.