PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
558 PM CDT THU OCT 13 2011
...STORM SURVEY DETERMINES YESTERDAY'S STORM PRODUCED STRAIGHT LINE
WIND AND BRIEFLY EF-0 TORNADO DAMAGE IN THE TARKINGTON-MACEDONIA
AREA...
A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM SURVEY HAS DETERMINED THAT
WEDNESDAY'S STORM PRODUCED STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE NEAR THE
SOUTHERN BORDER OF SAN JACINTO COUNTY JUST NORTH OF THE SQUIER
CEMETERY OR ABOUT 2.5 MILES NORTH OF CLEVELAND EXTENDING SOUTHEAST
TO TARKINGTON PRAIRIE IN LIBERTY COUNTY TO MACEDONIA. WIND SPEEDS
WERE ESTIMATED AT 60 TO 70 MPH WHICH DOWNED POWERLINES...FELLED AND
SNAPPED NUMEROUS TREES. THE TIME OF THIS EVENT BEGAN APPROXIMATELY
5:10 PM AND ENDED AROUND 6:00 PM. DAMAGE WAS SPORADIC AND NOT
CONTINUOUS.
AS THE STORM PASSED BY TO THE SOUTH OF THE CLEVELAND AIRPORT IT
PRODUCED A WIND GUST TO 61 MPH. PAN EYEWITNESS IN TARKINGTON PRAIRIE
OBSERVED A FUNNEL CLOUD FORM AND THEN BRIEFLY TOUCH DOWN NEAR FARM
TO MARKET 163 AND STATE HIGHWAY 321 AT 530 PM. THE STRAIGHT LINE
WIND DAMAGE WAS SPOTTY UNTIL THE SURVEY FOUND MORE TREE DAMAGE IN
THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF MACEDONIA FOLLOWED BY THE LAST TOUCHDOWN OF
AN EF-0 TORNADO WHERE A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AGAIN FELLING A TREE
ONTO A TRAILER HOME NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF FARM TO MARKET 2286 AND
COUNTY ROAD 2287 AT AROUND 6:00 PM. A WOMAN WAS INJURED INSIDE THE
TRAILER. NO OTHER DAMAGE WAS FOUND BEYOND THE TRAILER.
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