Sadly, Mother Nature is not done messing with Texas just yet. Over the next several days, parts of the South are in for trouble as torrential rain tears through Texas. The deluge, over a foot of rain, may cause dangerous, life-threatening flash floods.
Sadly, Mother Nature is not done messing with Texas just yet. Over the next several days, parts of the South are in for trouble as torrential rain tears through Texas. The deluge, over a foot of rain, may cause dangerous, life-threatening flash floods.
The cities on the highest alert for the much of the rest of this week are: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin, Texas as well as Shreveport & New Orleans, Louisiana and Little Rock, Arkansas.
Homes west of Fort Worth were flooded Monday night and several residents had to be rescued. On top of the torrential downpour, the South has been hit by and can expect more severe thunderstorms and even a few tornadoes through tomorrow. These will affect some of the same areas in the Lower Mississippi Valley, the southern Plains and the Gulf Coast.
One of the storms on Monday evening produced an EF-1 tornado near Cool, Texas. Another EF-1 hit southwest of Fort Worth near Tolar, Texas on Tuesday morning. Yet another EF-1 tornado cut a narrow path of damage through Stephenville, Texas early Tuesday.
EF-1 tornadoes can produce wind speeds of 86 – 110mph, causing severely stripped roofs, overturned or badly damaged mobile homes, broken windows and a loss of exterior doors.
The EF stands for the “Enhanced Fujita Scale”. According to Weather Underground:
“Dr. T. Theodore Fujita developed the Fujita Tornado Damage Scale (F-Scale) to provide estimates of tornado strength based on damage surveys. Since it’s practically impossible to make direct measurements of tornado winds, an estimate of the winds based on damage is the best way to classify a tornado. The new Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF-Scale) addresses some of the limitations identified by meteorologists and engineers since the introduction of the Fujita Scale in 1971.”
These tornadoes were followed by a squall line that pounded through Fort Worth with a 66mph wind gust measured at the Fort Worth Meacham Airport and one measured at 72mph at Blue Mound Road and Interstate 820.
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