{"id":611760,"date":"2017-05-01T03:20:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T08:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=611760"},"modified":"2017-05-02T02:39:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T07:39:05","slug":"nws-tornado-east-of-canton-a-mile-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=611760","title":{"rendered":"NWS: Tornado East of Canton a Mile Wide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>EAST TEXAS — The National Weather Service has released a preliminary report on four tornadoes which touched down on Saturday. One twister’s path of destruction was a mile wide. The one west of Canton has been upgraded to an EF-4 storm. According to KETK, a National Weather Service survey team began to survey the damage associated with at least four tornadoes that occurred in Henderson, Van Zandt, Rains and Hopkins Counties. Two of the four tornadoes were given a preliminary EF-0 rating while the other two were long-tracked tornadoes with more significant damage, leading to at least EF-3 ratings. Several survey teams will head out during the day Monday to continue to assess the damage.<\/p>\n

Tornado #1 – Grand Saline Tornado<\/p>\n

Rating: EF-0
\n Estimated Peak Wind: 80 mph
\n Path Length: 1.5 miles
\n Path Width: 100 yards
\n Injuries: 0
\n Start Time: 4:15 PM
\n End Time: 4:17 PM
\n Start Location: 5 SSW Grand Saline
\n End Location: 2 WSW Grand Saline<\/p>\n

Summary: Damage to trees was observed.<\/p>\n

Tornado #2 – East Canton #1 Tornado<\/p>\n

Rating: EF-0
\n Estimated Peak Wind: 75 mph
\n Path Length \/statute\/: 2 miles
\n Path Width \/maximum\/: 75 yards
\n Injuries: N\/A
\n Start Time: 5:10 PM CDT
\n End Time: 5:14 PM CDT
\n Start Location: 1 ESE Canton
\n End Location: 3 NE Canton<\/p>\n

Summary: Tornado caused damaged to trees and barns just southeast of city center of Canton.<\/p>\n

Tornado #3 – Eustace to West Canton Tornado<\/p>\n

Rating: EF-4
\n Estimated Peak Wind: 175 to 185 mph
\n Path Length \/statute\/: 23.35 miles
\n Path Width \/maximum\/: 800 yards
\n Injuries: N\/A
\n Start Time: 5:29 PM CDT
\n End Time: 06:09 PM CDT
\n Start Location: 2 SSE Eustace
\n End Location: 5 NNW Canton<\/p>\n

Summary: Damage to four or five homes where exterior walls collapsed. Several cars and numerous manufactured homes were damaged in central part of this tornado’s path.<\/p>\n

Summary: Damage to four or five homes where exterior walls collapsed. Several cars and numerous manufactured homes were damaged in central part of this tornado’s path. More details will be surveyed on Monday.<\/p>\n

Tornado #4 – Log Cabin to Yantis Tornado<\/p>\n

Rating: EF3
\n Estimated Peak Wind: 130 mph
\n Path Length \/statute\/: 55.5 miles
\n Path Width \/maximum\/: 1760 yards
\n Injuries: N\/A
\n Start Time: 5:41 PM CDT
\n End Time: 7:28 PM CDT
\n Start Location: 5 ENE Log Cabin (Henderson County)
\n End Location: 8 NW Yantis (Hopkins County)<\/p>\n

Summary: Tornado will be known as mile wide tornado which slammed into east side of Canton. More damage to be surveyed tomorrow. It is not yet clear whether this 55 mile damage path (51 miles in a straight line) is indeed one tornado, or was caused by more than one. More details to come late Monday. <\/p>\n

The NWS has confirmed seven tornadoes touched down in East Texas during Saturday’s severe weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EAST TEXAS — The National Weather Service has released a preliminary report on four tornadoes which touched down on Saturday. One twister’s path of destruction was a mile wide. The one west of Canton has been upgraded to an EF-4 storm. According to KETK, a National Weather Service survey team began to survey the damage … Continue reading NWS: Tornado East of Canton a Mile Wide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":611761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 03:35:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612109,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611760\/revisions\/612109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/611761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}