EF2 tornado, Sagerton, Texas, February 2, 2024

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 mph

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

3. EF2111 to 135 mphthis tornado

   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

EF2

Date

February 2, 2024

Touchdown

5:12 PM CST (23:12 UTC)

Lifted

5:16 PM CST (23:16 UTC)

On the ground

4 minutes

Path length

2.3 miles (3.7 km)

Path width

48 yards (44 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Haskell County

Touchdown point

33.020, -99.949

Lift-off point

33.034, -99.913

Record number

2402021712-01

7 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS SJT, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EFU. The highest wind the damage implies is 115 mph.

• Metal barn collapsed. Separate points for trailer and house.
• Severely damaged trailer moved approximately 30 yards from original location.
• Windows broken and blown in from tornado.
• Horse trailer lifted and traveled about 300 yds from original location.

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

A severe thunderstorm produced a strong tornado across southwest portions of Haskell County during the late afternoon. In addition, a 61 mph wind gust was reported from a mesonet observation station. Golf ball size hail was also reported with the tornadic thunderstorm.

A strong tornado occurred in southwest Haskell County. A home and several|structures nearby were damaged by the tornado near County Road|482 just west of the intersection of state highways 6 and 283.|Golf ball size hail was also reported with the tornadic thunderstorm.|The main residential home had roof and window damage. A mobile|home trailer near the main residence was also severely damaged and|was moved about 30 yards from its original location by the tornado.|A metal barn near the main residence collapsed and was also severely|damaged. A horse trailer near the main residence was moved about 300|yards from its original location by the tornado. The maximum wind speed was |115 mph. The damage survey was conducted by the NWS San Angelo.

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

6 minutes of warning. NWS SJT issued a tornado warning for this county at 23:06 UTC, 6 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 23:30 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 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 19:57 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 Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:11 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 2024 tornado in TexasEvery tornado in Texas since 1950Warnings in force in Texas nowThe forecast where you are

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.