This Week’s Tornado Count Reaches 14 in East Texas

EAST TEXAS — Surveys from Monday’s storms have finally been completed, and the official tornado count for East Texas has risen to 13, which brings the total for the week to 14. KETK reports the vast majority of these were small, weak, short-lived EF-0 tornadoes with top winds of only 70-75 mph that only damaged trees. But an EF-1 with winds of 90 mph struck Monday in extreme southeast Rusk County near the community of Caledonia and damaged one mobile home. Seven EF-0s had already been confirmed in the area that day, striking near Kilgore, Backville, Tatum, and Carthage. Monday’s storms caused no injuries.