2010 Canton, Texas Tornado

The 2010 Canton, Texas Tornado, preceded by the 2018 Canton Texas tornado was an unusual but violent tornado which struck Canton, Texas over early dawn in May 16th, 2010 causing over 121 fatalities (290 indirect) along with 490 injuries and total damage topping to around $912 million USD over 115 minutes.

Touchdown
In 05:12 CST, the mesocyclone has now dropped an tornado, nearing Canton NE at approx. 70-90 mph. The tornado, instantly morphed as an thick high-end EF2 around 0.73 miles wide would begin to intensify into an EF3, soon killing 1 person struck by the farm. As soon the tornado would cross the outskirts of Canton, the tornado soon rapidly gain size then growing over 1.9 miles wide along with now an EF4 status around 8 minutes after the touch down. Then, as it crossed through outer areas of Canton in just 3 minutes, the parent circulation would strike a market just south of Canton. Around 11 fatalities were reported along with 38 injuries. Then, the now EF5 tornado with 202 mph winds would engulf almost all of Canton directly, soon causing around 20 fatalities and 67 injuries with mobile homes completely swept away along with an High school almost flattened, killing 3 people and injuring 7.

WIP