EF0 tornado, Goodnight, Texas, June 22, 2019

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 22, 2019

Touchdown

10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)

Lifted

10:49 PM CDT (03:49 UTC)

On the ground

6 minutes

Path length

2.5 miles (3.9 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Armstrong County

Touchdown point

34.999, -101.136

Lift-off point

35.026, -101.108

Record number

1906222143-01

A large supercell formed in southeastern Armstrong County in the Texas Panhandle on the evening of June 22nd. This cell formed just before dark but gained strength after the sunset. The storm initially moved to the north then veered to the northeast then east before exiting the Texas Panhandle around 1 am on the 23rd. Additional storms formed just behind this cell following it out of the Texas Panhandle. During its time in the area, the storm produced to a tornado south of HWY 287 between Goodnight and Ashtola, TX. This tornado lifted, however the storm cycled and quickly produced a second tornado just north of the highway. The tornadoes were rated EF-0 as they didn't encounter many structures. This storm also produced very large hail up to baseball size. The severe storms also produced large hail as they tracked into the eastern Panhandles.

Based on a National Weather Service damage survey, this tornado touched down around 1043 PM, 4 miles southeast of Goodnight and lifted at approximately 1049 PM CDT, 4 miles east of Goodnight, TX. The tornado was rated an EF-0 with an estimated peak wind speed of 70 mph, consistent with the minor damaged observed.

Based on a National Weather Service damage survey, this tornado touched down around 1055 pm, 5 miles east of Goodnight and lifted at approximately 1104 pm CDT, 4 miles east-northeast of goodnight. The tornado was rated an EF-0 with an estimated peak wind speed of 85 mph consistent with damage observed.

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 Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 00:52 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 Amarillo radar (KAMA), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 03:41 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 2019 tornado in TexasEvery tornado in Texas since 1950Warnings in force in Texas nowThe forecast where you are

3 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.