EF0 tornado, Darrouzett, Texas, June 11, 2011

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

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

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   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

EF0

Date

June 11, 2011

Touchdown

6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)

Lifted

6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)

On the ground

2 minutes

Path length

0.5 miles (0.8 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$15,000

County

Lipscomb County

Touchdown point

36.449, -100.423

Lift-off point

36.445, -100.415

Record number

1106111749-01

3 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS AMA, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 80 mph.

• THE TORNADO FIRST TOUCHED DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 15\nAND COUNTY ROAD 8 WEST OF DARROUZETT AROUND 720 PM CDT. THE TORNADO\nWAS ON THE GROUND FOR ABOUT 0.5 MILE WITH A MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 50\nYARDS. THE MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS WERE AROUND 80 MPH. THE TORNADO\nDISSIPATED JUST SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 15 BETWEEN COUNTY ROADS 8 AND 9\nAROUND 722 PM CDT.
• Outbuilding and barn damaged.
• THE TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD\n19 AND COUNTY ROAD D NORTHWEST OF FOLLETT AROUND 750 PM CDT. THE\nTORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND FOR ABOUT 300 YARDS WITH A MAXIMUM WIDTH\nOF 50 YARDS. THE MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS WERE AROUND 80 MPH.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

Severe thunderstorms developed and moved across the northeast Texas Panhandle during the evening hours producing large hail, thunderstorm wind gusts, and tornadoes. Although no injuries or fatalities were reported, the tornadoes did cause some damage.

An official National Weather Service storm survey determined that the tornado touched down near the intersection of Texas State Highway 15 and County Road 8 approximately six miles west northwest of Darrouzett Texas in Lipscomb County around 1749 CST. The tornado was on the ground for about a half mile with a maximum path width of fifty yards. There was a barn that was damaged along with an outbuilding which was destroyed. The maximum wind speeds in the tornado were estimated to be seventy knots. The tornado dissipated just south of Texas State Highway 15 between County Road 8 and County Road 9 around 1751 CST. There were no injuries or fatalities reported.

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.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 20:42 UTC and running to 03:40 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 Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 20:00 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 Dodge City radar (KDDC), 151 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:49 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 2011 tornado in TexasEvery tornado in Texas since 1950Warnings in force in Texas nowThe forecast where you are

7 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.