EF1 tornado, Canyon to Timbercreek Canyon, Texas, April 25, 2025

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

April 25, 2025

Touchdown

11:32 PM CDT (04:32 UTC)

Lifted

11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)

On the ground

5 minutes

Path length

0.9 miles (1.4 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$500,000

County

Randall County

Touchdown point

34.998, -101.934

Lift-off point

34.998, -101.941

Record number

2504252232-01

24 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS AMA, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 110 mph.

• Porch enabled worse damage.
• No damage to power line in path
• No damage to power line in path. Adjacent DIs (trees, powerlines and other homes) don't support damage to the home. This suggests the roof structure may have been compromised in some way.
• No damage to power line in path. Adjacent DIs are less.

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

A cold front moved through the combined Panhandles. This combined with increased wind shear, instability and moisture to bring severe storms to the southern portions of the Texas Panhandle. Several tornadoes occurred during the late night into early morning hours of April 25th to 26th. Large hail and areas of flooding also occurred as storms continue to move over the same locations.

This tornado started around Northridge Drive where it brought down some tree limbs, It then crossed Hunsley Road where it began to impact homes, resulting in roof damage and fencing damage. It caused some fencing damage and minor roof damage to Freedom Fellowship Church. It then moved through the Madison Park subdivision, turning more to the west and following along Tatum Schulte Lane and Willeford Lane. Here, several homes received roof damage, fencing damage and some tree damage. Many of the homes sustained damage as a result of failure to the garage or porch roofs. One home had damage to cars and the home as a result|of a camper that went airborne, finally resting on between houses three doors down. The tornado then turned back to the southwest, crossing FM 2590 and causing additional tree and roof damage to some homes along Aztec Road. It crossed Hunsley Road again and the tornado lifted in the field behind a home. The maximum estimated winds were 110mph.

This was a very weak and brief tornado. It dropped down just to the south of McCormick Road, along Burrell Street. It resulted in some minor tree damage and tossed a trampoline in another resident's yard. It took a very narrow path to the northeast and|caused some damage to a barn near McCormick Road. The maximum estimated winds were 74mph.

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.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 03:08 UTC and running to 09:00 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 00:59 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), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 04:34 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 2025 tornado in TexasEvery tornado in Texas since 1950Warnings in force in Texas nowThe forecast where you are

5 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.