EF1 tornado, Jarrell Sybert Arpt to Corn Hill, Texas, October 24, 2022

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

October 24, 2022

Touchdown

8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)

Lifted

8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)

On the ground

7 minutes

Path length

3.9 miles (6.2 km)

Path width

150 yards (137 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$500,000

County

Williamson County

Touchdown point

30.797, -97.674

Lift-off point

30.788, -97.610

Record number

2210241946-01

30 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS EWX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 100 mph.

• Doors of fire station blown in and out to the east northeast. Roofing material also blown off.
• Two story home being constructed. Collapsed.
• Tree partially uprooted. Minor loss of roofing material on home.
• 9 power poles damaged, including at least one that was snapped.

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

A shortwave trough moved through the upper pattern and pushed a cold front through South Central Texas. Thunderstorms developed along this front and produced damaging wind gusts and one tornado.

A National Weather Service storm survey team determined a tornado touched down just west of CR 234 and north of CR 239. The tornado moved southeastward producing EF-0 damage to trees and a barn and knocked down a two-story home that was still under construction near CR 310 and CR 237. As the tornado crossed this intersection it turned east and strengthened and widened. High end EF-0 damage was observed to trees and some homes just to the west of I-35. The tornado crossed I-35 south of CR 314 and north of Ronald Reagan Blvd. and strengthened further. A semi-trailer was flipped on I-35 and the driver sustained minor injuries. Nine wooden power poles were brought down on the north bound side of I-35, including one that was snapped in half. As the tornado continued east of I-35 and west of Little Road EF-1 damage was observed. Additional power poles were damaged and snapped. A home sustained roof damage and many large tree branches were snapped. A barn had a portion of the roof removed. A small, enclosed cargo trailer on the property was lofted roughly 100 yards downwind. Maximum winds were estimated at 100 mph just east of I-35. The tornado dissipated east of Little Road.

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

0 minutes of warning. NWS EWX issued a tornado warning for this county at 01:46 UTC, 0 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 02:30 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 00:25 UTC and running to 04:17 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 00:43 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), 26 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 01:44 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 2022 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.