East Texas (KLTV/KTRE) - UPDATE: A total of four tornadoes have now been confirmed from storms that rolled through East Texas on Tuesday.
The latest confirmed EF-1 tornado tracked from Franklin into Camp County and was on the ground for 18 miles.
The EF1 tornado touched down in southern Franklin county around 7:15a.m., uprooting numerous trees and removing metal roof panels from a South Franklin Fire Department Building. The tornado then crossed into Camp county, traveling along the southern bank of Lake Bob Sandlin. One outbuilding that was used as a cabin was sitting on wooden beams and cinder blocks was blown away and destroyed. The cabin was blown into a neighboring RV, which was then overturned. Another RV was also overturned in this campground. Three injuries occurred to occupants of the RV campers. The tornado finally lifted at 7:35a.m. 5 miles north of Pittsburg in northern Camp county.
A tornado documented Wednesday was in Scottsville, in Harrison County.
It has been rated as an EF-1 tornado with an estimated peak wind of 90 miles per hour. The path length was 1.04 miles, and the width was 100 yards. This tornado began at 8:46 a.m. and ended a minute later. It began on Harkins Lane and traveled eastward for about a mile, just north of FM 1998. Most of the damage was to trees that were uprooted or snapped off. The highest concentration of tree damage was in the neighboring Scottsville and Rock Springs Cemeteries near the start of the path. It is possible the tornado was on the ground a bit longer than one mile, but the lack of ground access hindered the ability of the severe team to confirm that, the NWS said.
Another tornado they’ve confirmed today was in Pineland area of Sabine County. The tornado had an estimated peak wind of 105 miles per hour, and the path length was 5.71 miles, and width was 625 yards.
The NWS stated:
This strong EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 105 mph touched down in the Sabine National Forest along Forest Road 144, where numerous softwood trees were snapped and uprooted. The heaviest concentration of damage was near the intersection of Forest Road 144 and Forest Road 144A, where the tornado was strongest and widest. This tornado tracked northeast across inaccessible areas of the forest, before crossing Highway 87 just south of the Six Mile community. Numerous additional softwood trees were snapped and uprooted between Forest Road 182 and Shawnee Shores Drive, before lifting within a cove in Toledo Bend Reservoir along Shawnee Shores Drive. This tornado track may be extended farther west of the current start point based on future areal surveys by the U.S. Forest Service.
The National Weather Service said earlier on Wednesday that a tornado had touched down northwest of Woodville during Tuesday’s storms.
An EF-1 tornado touched down before 10 a.m. about five miles northwest of Woodville, the NWS said. They’ve named it the “Little Cypress Creek Tornado.”
A damage survey shows the tornado to have had a peak wind speed of 95 mph, covering about 0.56 miles when it touched down. The report says the tornado was on the ground from about 9:49 a.m. to 9:52 a.m.
It began about 0.5 miles west of Highway 287, where several trees were damaged along with some outbuildings, the NWS said, then continued northeast where it damaged a home, destroyed an outbuilding and snapped several pine trees at the trunk. Two-by-fours were impaled into the roof of the home and about 30% of the roof was peeled off, the report says.