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EF0 tornado in Grady County, Oklahoma

Tornado February 26, 2023 · Grady County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
10.7 mi
Whole path
150 yd
Path width
$255K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Grady County → Canadian County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 tornado touched down south of County Road 1190 to the west of Tuttle, and moved northeast crossing the Canadian River into Canadian County. In Grady County, the tornado damaged trees and street signs.

The wider storm

A powerful storm system, with highly anomalous magnitudes of wind shear and moisture for late February, impacted the forecast area on the evening of the 26th. A broken line of severe thunderstorms developed across the eastern Texas Panhandle/far western Oklahoma and quickly swept through much of the forecast area. Widespread wind damage, including gusts near 90 mph, along with a record number of tornadoes (13) for February occurred. Several reports of large hail were also received. Behind the line of thunderstorms, a tight pressure gradient and strong westerly low-level jet allowed widespread 50-60 mph winds gusts to continue through the late evening hours.

Began near Tuttle (35.2840, -97.8670).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Roger Mills County 1 deadEF2 McClain CountyEF2 Pottawatomie CountyEF1 Beckham CountyEF1 Greer CountyEF1 Kiowa CountyEF1 Oklahoma CountyEF1 Cleveland CountyEF1 Pottawatomie CountyEF0 Alfalfa CountyEF0 Caddo CountyEF0 Grady CountyEFU Harmon County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1082863. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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