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EF0 tornado in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 23, 2022 · Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$2K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A weak tornado developed just west of Peebly Road north of Reno Avenue and moved northeast. Tree damage was observed along Peebly Road and just west of the Kickapoo Turnpike. This tornado was within a much broader area of wind damage.

The wider storm

A dryline positioned itself to the west of the I-35 corridor, with several supercells developing by late afternoon of the 23rd. These storms brough hail and wind to parts of central and southwest Oklahoma, as well as a couple tornadoes.

Began near Harrah (35.4690, -97.2140).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Grady County EF0 Oklahoma County EF0 Garvin County EFU Canadian County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1025005. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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