EF1 tornado, Wheeler Spgs to Grapeland, Texas, June 10, 2010

1. EF065 to 85 mph

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

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

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

3. EF2111 to 135 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. EF3136 to 165 mph

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

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

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

6. EF5over 200 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

EF1

Date

June 10, 2010

Touchdown

10:56 AM CDT (15:56 UTC)

Lifted

11:06 AM CDT (16:06 UTC)

On the ground

10 minutes

Path length

2.8 miles (4.5 km)

Path width

75 yards (69 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$75,000

County

Houston County

Touchdown point

31.312, -95.656

Lift-off point

31.351, -95.642

Record number

1006100956-01

A weak tornado downed trees in west-central Houston County near the Leon county line. Another brief touch down occurred near Latexo. The storm that generated the tornado formed ahead of a slow moving upper level low pressure system that generated flooding rains just outside our area.

Tornado touched down on ranch land over west-central Houston County, south of route 7 and just east of the Trinity River. Numerous hardwood trees were downed or snapped along the damage path. Two salt mineral feeders were moved. Rancher reported 2200 pound bull was lifted and thrown into an adjoining pasture. The tornado moved north-northeast, crossing route 7 and moving near a rock quarry where it removed two large signs and split a tree in the middle of a field. It then continued another mile north northeast where it crossed County Road 2065 where it downed trees and uprooted trees and damaged a shed. The roof was damaged on an old building.

Three large trees were uprooted on ranch land just north of Latexo near route 19. About 1.5 miles farther north the tornado briefly touched down again with a large limb stripped off a tree at a residence with minor gutter damage to the home.

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

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

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 General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 13:00 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.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 179 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 15:55 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2010 tornado in TexasEvery tornado in Texas since 1950Warnings in force in Texas nowThe forecast where you are

5 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.