Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Wells Branch
23.05.2015 · Wells Branch · Texas · United States
Media
0
Sources & links
4
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Damage track length
0,97 km
Max. width
0,23 km
Duration
3
Injured
0
Fatalities
0
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Duration
- 3
- Maximum damage track width
- 0,23 km
- Damage track length
- 0,97 km
- Extent
- 100
- Type in legacy database
- Tornado
- Count
- 1
- Intensity estimate
- Damage assessment by a weather expert
- Intensity source
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_tornadoes_in_April_2015#May_23_event
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Land
- Land use at end
- Land
- Surface / terrain
- Land
- Injured
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Position
- S of Wells Branch
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- North America
- Geographic accuracy
- 1 km
Sources and further links
4 entries
Source
2
Source
Hauptquelle
www.webcitation.org open externally
Source
Quelle
webcitation.org
Link
1
Info
1
Info
Info
A business had its sheet metal roofing peeled back, and a stone brick sign was demolished. At an apartment complex, roofing shingles were damaged, large tree limbs were snapped, and a garbage dumpster was tossed. The second floor of a storage facility had its metal roof and walls collapsed. The tornado lifted and tossed 10 small moving trailers. Several power poles were blown over and additional tree limbs were snapped.
Key facts
- Date
- 23.05.2015
- Time
- 21:39:00
- Location
- Wells Branch
- Region
- Texas
- Country
- United States
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