Tornado 3 near Smithland in Marion County, Texas

Rating: EF-2

Estimated peak wind: 130 mph

Path length: 13.3 miles

Maximum path width: 800 yards

Fatalities: 0

Injuries: 0

Start: 4:50 p.m. 1.33 miles west-southwest of Smithland

End: 5:28 p.m. 3.14 miles southwest of Rodessa, La.

Survey summary: A survey team determined that damage near Smithland and across eastern Marion County, Texas, as well as just southwest of Rodessa, La., was consistent with EF-2 tornado damage.

Damage consisted of numerous trees snapped and/or uprooted. Numerous power lines also were downed along the storm's path. The tornado first touched down just west of Smithland, Texas, near Highway 43 and intensified near Highway 49.

It moved several vehicles and deposited a party barge 200 yards into a grove of trees. Trees were downed on several homes. And the tornado flipped over a travel trailer.

It then continued northeast, crossing County Road 3300, at which point it removed the roof of a home. A woman inside took shelter in a bathtub. The tornado lifted the tub out of the home and deposited it in the woods with the woman still in the tub. But the woman was not injured.

The storm then moved along County Road 3306 before entering far southeast Cass County, Texas, along County Road 4455. It then crossed over State Line Road and moved into Northwest Louisiana northeast of Vivian in Caddo Parish and southwest of Rodessa, where it removed the roof of a cinder-block storage building and shifted a single-wide mobile home several feet off its foundation.

The tornado lifted on Old Atlanta Road just south of Myrtis Texas Line Road.