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EF0 tornado in Garvin County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 24, 2022 · Garvin County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$30K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 brief tornado occurred just southwest of Pauls Valley within a much broader area of wind damage. Although much of the damage in the Pauls Valley area indicated straight-line winds blowing from west to east, debris indicated a small area of rotational winds associated with a tornado near the intersection of County Road 3220, and Royal Oaks Road which damaged a salon and pushed farm implements to the west.

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 Pauls Valley (34.7230, -97.2650).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Grady CountyEF0 Oklahoma CountyEF0 Oklahoma CountyEFU Canadian County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1025022. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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