F0 tornado, Goodlett to Quanah, Texas, May 29, 2001

1. F040 to 72 mphthis tornado

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. F173 to 112 mph

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. F2113 to 157 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. F3158 to 206 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. F4207 to 260 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. F5261 to 318 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

F0

Date

May 29, 2001

Touchdown

9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)

Path length

0.2 miles (0.3 km)

Path width

25 yards (23 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Hardeman County

Touchdown point

34.320, -99.850

Lift-off point

34.320, -99.850

Record number

824

Two large and severe thunderstorms which spawned tornadoes in the Texas panhandle earlier in the day, moved into Hardeman County around dark. The thunderstorms merged into one very large severe thunderstorm near Quanah and was responsible for 2 tornadoes, one reported 1/4 to 1/2 mile wide, and widespread straight-line wind damage to city of Chillicothe.

This tornado was reported by the Department of Public Safety in Chillicothe. The tornado traveled a very short distance before dissipating, and no damage occurred.

This was a large tornado, observed by many persons, but only produced F1 damage. The tornado formed about 3 miles east of Quanah and tracked east-southeast for 8 miles before dissipating. As the tornado crossed Highway 287, a semi-truck, which pulled to the side of the road, was blown over. The driver sustained several injuries, requiring hopital care. Also nearby, 10 to 15 utility poles were either blown over or snapped in half, and a trailer house was destroyed.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

32 minutes of warning. NWS OUN issued a tornado warning for this county at 02:13 UTC, 32 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 02:45 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Moderate Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 01:28 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at May 29, 2:30 PM CDT, 7 hours 15 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
230 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN OK THIS EVENING
FROM THE TX AND OK PANHANDLES AS THE CORE OF THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH
MOVES INTO WESTERN OK TONIGHT. THE LOW LEVEL JET WILL STRENGTHEN
ACROSS CENTRAL OK LATER TONIGHT AND THE HEAVIER RAINFALL IS EXPECTED
TO BE FROM CENTRAL TO NORTHERN OK...AREAS THAT WILL BE NORTH OF THE
RED RIVER WARM FRONT AND CLOSER TO THE STRONGER KINEMATICS. STORMS
THAT MOVE INTO WESTERN OK ARE EXPECTED FOR FORM AN MCS AND MOVE
ACROSS THIS AREA OVERNIGHT.

AS THE UPPER TROUGH PASSES TO THE EAST TUESDAY, A COLD FRONT WILL
MOVE INTO NORTHWEST OK TUESDAY MORNING AND INTO THE CENTRAL PART OF
THE STATE BY EVENING. SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST
ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...LASTING INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACROSS
SOUTHERN OK.

ONCE THIS SYSTEM CLEARS...THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WILL SEE DRIER AND
COOLER NIGHTTIME AIR. AN UPPER RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO BUILD INTO THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS DURING THE WEEKEND WITH WEAK SOUTHWEST FLOW EARLY
NEXT WEEK...A WARMING AIRMASS AND NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER MAKER.

FCSTID = 9
OKC   67  81  57  83 /  70  40   0   0
HBR   66  81  57  84 /  70  20   0   0
SPS   67  86  60  88 /  60  40   0   0
GAG   62  80  54  84 /  80  20   0   0
PNC   66  80  55  84 / 100  30   0   0
DUA   69  85  63  85 /  60  80  60   0

.OUN...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.

In the hours before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
914 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001

TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0913 PM    BU>FFALO                   OK   60 MPH WIND GUST
05/29/01   HARPER                         ESTIMATED BY COUNTY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE

KT

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
939 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001

TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0915 PM    1 SW BUFFALO              OK   65 MPH WIND GUST
05/29/01   HARPER                         MEASURED BY OKLAHOMA
                                          MESONET

KT

Childress Municipal (CDS), 42 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2001 tornado in TexasEvery tornado in Texas since 1950Warnings in force in Texas nowThe forecast where you are

28 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.