EF0 tornado, Kevin to Plum Grove, Texas, February 3, 2026

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, as surveyed

EF0, preliminary

Date

February 3, 2026

Touchdown

3:24 PM CST (21:24 UTC)

Lifted

3:25 PM CST (21:25 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.3 miles (0.5 km)

Path width

65 yards (59 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Liberty County

Touchdown point

30.253, -95.102

Lift-off point

30.254, -95.098

Highest wind the damage implies

80 mph

Surveyed by

NWS HGX

The office's name for it

Plum Grove Tornado Segment 1

Survey last edited

February 5, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

Preliminary damage path of the first tornado segment of the Plum Grove Tornado. Tornado appears to initially touched down within a wooded area between CR 3708 and CR 3709, then turned eastward along CR 3709 for a short distance before lifting up shortly before River Ln. Through the use of a drone, did not see any damage in the deeply wooded area along the East Fork of the San Jacinto River. So, will end the first tornado just before the River Ln and CR 3709 intersection.

Majority of the damage seen was broken trunks and branches of pine trees and fences down. Power lines were also reported blown down, but the power line poles remained upright.

Written by NWS HGX in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

21 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS HGX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 85 mph.

• Multiple trees snapped, tree fence blown over. Trees had reported beetle damage.
• Unhealthy pine tree damage, and fence damage.
• Tree damage and fence line down.
• Unhealthy tree snapped, metal awning sheet ripped off of nearby car port.

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

On the third of February, a tornado formed in Plum Grove area in Liberty county.

Storms moved through Liberty county on February 3rd, where a tornado warned storm passed through the Plum Grove area. Initially broadcast media reported trees down near intersection of County Road 3709 and County Road 3732. In the aftermath of this storm, a survey team was dispatched to assess the damage across the area.||The survey team found that this storm produced two tornadoes, this being the first. According to the survey team, the tornado appeared to initially touched down within a wooded area between CR 3708 and CR 3709, then turned eastward along CR 3709 for a short distance before lifting up shortly before River Ln. A drone was used to assess an areal view of the damage, though the survey team noted that they did not see any damage in the deeply wooded area along the East Fork of the San Jacinto River. Therefore, the survey team concluded that the first tornado ended just before the River Ln and CR 3709 intersection. The majority of the damage seen was broken trunks and branches of pine trees and fences down. Power lines were also reported blown down, but the power line poles remained upright. This tornado was rated as an EF0 with a maximum estimated wind speed of 80 mph. This maximum wind speed was based on Softwood Trees (TS) with a DOD of 2. Survey teams noted that the trees in question had reported beetle damage.

Storms moved through Liberty county on February 3rd, where a tornado warned storm passed through the Plum Grove area. Initially broadcast media reported trees down near intersection of County Road 3709 and County Road 3732. In the aftermath of this storm, a survey team was dispatched to assess the damage across the area.||The survey team found that this storm produced two tornadoes, this being the second. This second tornado started along FM 1010 and Wooden Ln, indicated by an uprooted tree and broken wood signage. The tornado entered a largely empty field between FM 1010 and CR 3405, but still saw some tree damage. The tornado then entered the Bella Vista subdivision, causing tree damage, fence damage, and metal structure damage between CR 3405 and CR 3404. No further damage was seen beyond the intersection of CR 3404 and CR 3410. This tornado was rated as an EF0. The most significant damage occurred at a metal structure off of FM 1010 with estimated peak winds of 85 mph. This assessment is based on a metal building system (MBS) with a DOD of 3.

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.

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 General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:41 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 Houston radar (KHGX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 21:25 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 2026 tornado in TexasEvery tornado in Texas since 1950Warnings in force in Texas nowThe forecast where you are

1 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.