Tornadoes · United States · Texas · 2024
Unrated tornado, Loop, Texas, June 10, 2024
This Unrated tornado ran 1.2 miles across Gaines County on June 10, 2024, touching down at 7:22 PM 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 10, 2024
- Touchdown
- 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Lifted
- 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- On the ground
- 3 minutes
- Path length
- 1.2 miles (1.9 km)
- Path width
- 50 yards (46 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- County
- Gaines County
- Touchdown point
- 32.930, -102.366
- Lift-off point
- 32.915, -102.348
- Record number
- 2406101822-01
The damage survey
2 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MAF, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EFU.
Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.
What the Weather Service recorded
A weak, convectively enhanced upper-low over the Texas/New Mexico border aided in the development of severe thunderstorms ahead of this feature. This included hail, damaging winds, and a couple of brief tornadoes.
Multiple observers reported a brief cone tornado to the northeast of Loop. The tornado only lasted two to three minutes over open fields. The tornado likely dissipated near US Highway 83. No damage was reported and this tornado is rated EF-Unknown. Path is estimated from reports and radar data.
From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.
The warnings
No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.
| Issued (UTC) | Expired | Product | Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22:55 UTC | 00:00 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF |
| 00:03 UTC | 01:00 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF |
| 00:42 UTC | 01:08 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF |
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 forecast that day
The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:54 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 surface observations
Seminole (GNC), 39 km from the path, in the two hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Temp (°F) | Dew point (°F) | Wind | Gust (kt) | Pressure (mb) | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22:35 UTC | 81.7 | 62.2 | 90° 7 kt | 1015.9 | ||
| 22:55 UTC | 82.2 | 61.5 | 110° 8 kt | 1015.2 | ||
| 23:15 UTC | 80.4 | 61 | 110° 6 kt | 1014.9 | ||
| 23:35 UTC | 80 | 61 | 90° 10 kt | 1014.2 | ||
| 23:55 UTC | 66.2 | 64.4 | 20° 10 kt | 52 | 1015.9 | +RA |
| 00:15 UTC | 66.7 | 66.4 | 90° 4 kt | 1016.3 | -RA | |
| 00:35 UTC | 63.5 | 62.6 | 130° 6 kt | 20 | 1016.3 | |
| 00:55 UTC | 63.7 | 62.6 | 120° 7 kt | 1016.3 | ||
| 01:15 UTC | 67 | 60.6 | 80° 3 kt | 1016.3 | ||
| 01:35 UTC | 67 | 61.7 | 100° 4 kt | 1016.6 | ||
| 01:55 UTC | 68 | 62.2 | 0° 0 kt | 1016.9 | -RA | |
| 02:15 UTC | 68.5 | 63.5 | 0° 0 kt | 1017.3 | -DZ |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 96 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:21 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.
What was reported nearby
Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Report | Where | County | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23:55 UTC | TSTM WND GST 60 | 2 S Seminole | Gaines, TX | AWOS station KGNC Seminole. |
| 00:22 UTC | TORNADO | 4 E Loop | Gaines, TX | Corrects previous tornado report from 2 E Loop. Multiple observers reported a brief cone tornado to the northeast of Loop. The tornado only lasted two to three minutes over open fields. The tornado likely dissipated near |
| 00:23 UTC | TORNADO | 4 Nnw Union | Dawson, TX | Video shows a brief rope tornado east of Lamesa. This was over open fields. |
| 00:28 UTC | TORNADO | 2 E Loop | Gaines, TX | Multiple reports of a brief cone tornado from northeast of Loop. Tornado crossed Hwy 83 before dissipating. Tornado was over mainly open fields. |
| 01:20 UTC | HAIL 2.25 | 1 Se Brownfield | Terry, TX | |
| 01:22 UTC | HAIL 1.5 | Brownfield | Terry, TX | Slightly smaller than golf balls. |
| 01:23 UTC | TORNADO | 4 Nnw Union | Dawson, TX | Corrects previous tornado report from 4 NNW Union. A video shared to broadcast media showed a brief tornado over an open field west of Lamesa. The tornado did not cause any damage and is rated EF-Unknown. The path is est |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.
This ground now
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The other tornadoes of June 10, 2024
1 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 10 | 7:23 PM CDT | Unrated | Dawson, TX | 0.5 | 25 |
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.