EF0 tornado, George West, Texas, June 12, 2025

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

   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 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

EF0

Date

June 12, 2025

Touchdown

7:39 AM CDT (12:39 UTC)

Path length

0.6 miles (1.0 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Live Oak County

Touchdown point

28.330, -98.110

Lift-off point

28.330, -98.110

Record number

2506120639-01

2 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS CRP, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 65 mph.

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

During the second/third week of June, South Texas experienced an active and dynamic weather pattern that led to several impactful weather events, including heavy rainfall, flash flooding, thunderstorm wind damage, a weak tornado, and a waterspout. The unsettled conditions were driven by a combination of deep tropical moisture, persistent upper-level disturbances, and an unstable atmosphere. PWATs frequently exceeded 2.0 inches (well above the climatological average) supporting efficient rainfall production. A series of MCSs and repeated rounds of convection produced widespread rainfall totals between 0.5-2.5 inches across much of the region, with localized amounts exceeding 9 inches, especially in the northeast Coastal Bend. These intense rainfall rates, coupled with slow-moving or training storms, resulted in significant flash flooding, prompting Flood Watches and multiple Flash Flood Warnings. The severe weather was not limited to flooding. Strong to severe thunderstorms also brought damaging winds, particularly across the Victoria Crossroads and Coastal Plains. Outflow boundaries from earlier storms helped initiate new rounds of convection, some of which strengthened rapidly in the presence of deep-layer shear and enhanced low-level inflow. This environment also proved favorable for brief, low-end tornadoes and waterspouts, with at least one weak tornado and a waterspout being reported during the active stretch.

Live Oak County EMC confirmed minor tree and porch damage along a narrow path through George West. Media relayed photo of well developed funnel cloud with this storm.

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.

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 Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 05:50 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 Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 12:41 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

7 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.