A NWS storm survey team found no visible damages from this tornado. This tornado touched down in open country a couple miles south of Tynan. The Tynan Tornado was photographed by a citizen in Tynan. This tornado touched down in open brush country about 4 miles south of Anna Rosa. The Anna Rose Tornado was observed by several law enforcement officers. Fortunately, there were no injuries or fatalities. The storm that produced this tornado eventually produced another tornado near the town of Bruni in southern Webb County about an hour later. This tornado ripped the roof off one home and damaged trees and electrical poles along a seven mile path into southern Duval County. Another tornado touched down in southern Jim Wells County near the town of Premont. Trees were stripped of their limbs or uprooted along a 12 mile path from this tornado as it crossed into northern Duval County. The strongest tornado, rated F1 (winds 73 to 112 mph) on the Fujita Scale, demolished a mobile home and tore the roof off a residence in north central Jim Wells County near the community of Tecolote. Five tornadoes were confirmed to have touch down with several other unconfirmed tornadoes reported throughout the day. Tracking generally towards the west-northwest, the storm gradually intensified as it traversed the Caribbean, peaking as a Category 5 hurricane on July 16. Strong low level wind shear combined with an increasingly unstable airmass resulted in an outbreak of tornadoes across the western Coastal Bend and Rio Grande Plains. On the day of landfall, showers and thunderstorms, in the outer rainbands, became more intense and fanned a region from deep south Texas northward to the mid coast region. Some vehicles were stranded in water several feet deep. Beaches farther north eventually closed as well as the strong surf flooded beach access roads. The Padre Island National Sea Shore closed down the beach several days before Emily made landfall. These higher than normal tides caused flooding of area beaches and beach access roads up to several feet deep. Water levels rose to 2.0 to 2.5 feet above normal resulting in storm tides of 3.5 feet mean sea level along the barrier island from Bob Hall Pier southward. The large swells were excellent for surfing, but potentially deadly, helping to produce strong rip currents that could easily push the inexperienced swimmer out to sea.Įmily made landfall during peak high tide. Emily Storm History However the powerful winds from Emily generated large 30 foot waves over the open ocean, which were dampened slightly before pounding the mid Texas coast. The NHC track forecast was very accurate and the coastal bend was spared from the brunt of the storm. Coordination calls were made every 6 hours with the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and with local officals in the South Texas region. Hurricane Emily made landfall approximately 200 miles to the south of Corpus Christi in Northeastern Mexico on July 20, 2005, however the mid Texas coast experienced two of the four major hazards that hurricanes can offer, including coastal flooding and tornadoes.įorecasters at the National Weather Service worked around the clock monitoring Emily's every move for over a week before she made landfall.
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