Tornadoes · United States · Texas · 2023
Unrated tornado, New Hope, Texas, June 11, 2023
This Unrated tornado ran 0.4 miles across Jones County on June 11, 2023, touching down at 12:35 AM CDT and reaching 50 yards wide. It killed nobody.
The rating scale
Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.
EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
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.
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.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
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.
Unratedthis tornado
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.
The record
- Rating
- Unrated
- Date
- June 11, 2023
- Touchdown
- 12:35 AM CDT (05:35 UTC)
- Lifted
- 12:39 AM CDT (05:39 UTC)
- On the ground
- 4 minutes
- Path length
- 0.4 miles (0.7 km)
- Path width
- 50 yards (46 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- County
- Jones County
- Touchdown point
- 32.870, -99.860
- Lift-off point
- 32.871, -99.853
- Record number
- 2306112335-01
What the Weather Service recorded
West central Texas was located to the south of a stationary frontal boundary and east of a surface dryline through this time frame. As a result, abundant low level moisture was across the area, along with strong to extreme instability and adequate deep layer shear for severe thunderstorms including supercell storms to develop. Most of the severe storms occurred east of an Abilene to Eden to Menard line during the afternoon and evening hours. The severe storms produce large to very large hail along with isolated damaging winds.
Law Enforcement called stating that a Deputy south of Stamford reported a possible tornado which was rain wrapped and heading toward Avoca.
From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Jun 12, 12:21 AM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 12:21 AM CDT, 14 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service San Angelo TX 1221 AM CDT Mon Jun 12 2023 ...New AVIATION... .SHORT TERM... (This evening through Monday) Issued at 205 PM CDT Sun Jun 11 2023 A band of scattered thunderstorms is indicated by the multiple short range models (CAMs included) this afternoon and evening. This activity is most likely to occur across areas near Abilene and move east along the I-20 corridor. Recent satellite imagery indicates a small amount of cumulus developing, which may indicate this solution is likely to be the expected outcome. A Marginal Risk for severe weather has been included across this area for the remainder of today by the Storm Prediction Center. Large hail (1"+ in diameter) and damaging winds (60 MPH range) are the main hazards. Otherwise, the bigger risk across the area with regards to severe weather is on Monday afternoon and evening. It is worth mentioning that the best odds of seeing this activity for tomorrow remains across areas east of a Throckmorton to Junction line. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are a possibility (20-30% chance). Any thunderstorm activity will be capable of producing large hail (2"+ in diameter) and damaging winds (60 MPH range). An isolated tornado cannot be ruled out. Otherwise, high temperatures will continue to be on the rise with highs well into the triple digits. && .LONG TERM... (Monday night through next Saturday) Issued at 258 PM CDT Sun Jun 11 2023 Storms across the Big Country and Heartland that develop Monday afternoon may linger into evening hours, but otherwise looks like a predominantly dry forecast for the upcoming week and weekend for now. Same basic idea continues...with a trough to the east and a trough to the west and leaving a weak ridge in place across the Southern Plains for most of the week. May have a bit of a weakness in the ridge and more zonal flow for mid week and forecasted temperatures are down a few degrees verse what we were looking at yesterday. But ridge builds back into place for the weekend and temperatures again start to climb well above 105 in some areas. As mentioned yesterday, will be interesting to watch whether temperatures can be maximized with the abundant unusually green conditions across much of the area, as well as the evapotranspiration going on. Temperatures around San Angelo this afternoon are lagging behind some what is expected, although dewpoints are higher and the Apparent temperatures are well above 100. As some drying occurs this week, may well see this few degrees temperature difference come to an end and allow readings to soar. && .AVIATION... (06Z TAFS) Issued at 1220 AM CDT Mon Jun 12 2023 Thunderstorms to the north of KABI at 5Z will move east, staying north of the terminal, but may send an outflow boundary down, giving some gusty north winds for an hour or so through 7Z. Isolated thunderstorm possible Monday afternoon at KABI but given the isolated nature of the storms, did not include VCTS at this time. Southeast winds gusting up to 18 KTS likely across the terminal by noon. KABI may see a shift to east to northeast winds mid to late afternoon. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Abilene 69 94 67 94 / 20 0 0 0 San Angelo 73 103 67 101 / 10 0 0 0 Junction 74 105 71 105 / 10 0 0 0 Brownwood 71 100 69 97 / 20 0 10 0 Sweetwater 69 96 66 96 / 10 0 0 0 Ozona 74 102 68 103 / 10 0 0 0 Brady 72 99 70 98 / 10 0 0 10 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && SHORT TERM...41 LONG TERM....07 AVIATION...04
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 3:35 PM CDT, 9 hours before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service San Angelo TX 335 PM CDT Sun Jun 11 2023 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-122045- Fisher-Nolan-Sterling-Coke-Runnels-Irion-Tom Green-Concho- Crockett-Schleicher-Sutton-Haskell-Throckmorton-Jones-Shackelford- Taylor-Callahan-Coleman-Brown-McCulloch-San Saba-Menard-Kimble- Mason- 335 PM CDT Sun Jun 11 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of west central Texas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Thunderstorms are possible across areas near Abilene and also for areas east of Abilene on I-20. The main hazards are large hail and damaging winds. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are possible again on Monday. Large hail and damaging winds are the main concerns. Temperatures above 105 degrees are possible through the end of the week. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed.
In the hours before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 11, 9:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
919 PM CDT Sun Jun 11 2023
TXZ140-120300-
Brown TX-
919 PM CDT Sun Jun 11 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Brown County
through 1000 PM CDT...
At 919 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Brownwood, moving southeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Brownwood, Early, Zephyr and Camp Bowie.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for
west central Texas.
&&
LAT...LON 3170 9868 3169 9875 3167 9877 3161 9878
3154 9890 3173 9909 3181 9903 3174 9869
3170 9867
TIME...MOT...LOC 0219Z 302DEG 29KT 3172 9898
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
snThe air that afternoon
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.
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), 00:00Z
5.6 hours before the tornado, 240 km from the path. June 12, 2023.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2459 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Surface CAPE
- 3498 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
- 0-3 km lapse rate
- 9.2 K/km
The surface observations
Dyess Afb/Abilene (DYS), 50 km from the path, in the two hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Temp (°F) | Dew point (°F) | Wind | Gust (kt) | Pressure (mb) | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 05:32 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.
This ground now
The live radar over the trackEvery 2023 tornado in TexasEvery tornado in Texas since 1950Warnings in force in Texas nowThe forecast where you are
The other tornadoes of June 11, 2023
7 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 11 | 4:30 PM CDT | EF1 | Fentress, TN | 11.3 | 300 | $500,000 | ||
| June 11 | 4:59 PM CDT | EF1 | Cumberland, TN | 2.2 | 50 | $250,000 | ||
| June 11 | 6:04 PM EDT | EF1 | Scott, TN | 3.4 | 200 | |||
| June 11 | 5:58 PM CDT | EF1 | Fentress, TN | 2.3 | 30 | $150,000 | ||
| June 11 | 7:23 PM EDT | EF0 | Miami, OH | 0.6 | 150 | $30,000 | ||
| June 11 | 7:35 PM EDT | EF0 | Champaign, OH | 0.8 | 125 | $20,000 | ||
| June 11 | 9:34 PM CDT | EF1 | Chickasaw, MS | 0.9 | 100 | $50,000 |
What this means
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.
Sources
NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.