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EF0 tornado in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 23, 2022 · Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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 touched down about 4 miles northwest of Harrah and moved south-southeast near Peebly Road between NE 63rd and NE 50th Streets. Some light tree damages was observed. This was embedded within a much larger area of damaging thunderstorm winds.

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 (35.5340, -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 1025010. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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