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EF0 tornado in Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 19, 2023 · Cleveland County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

The fifteenth tornado of the outbreak developed northeast of Little Axe southwest of the intersection of 180th Avenue SE and Tecumseh Road and moved northeast dissipating east of this intersection. Trees were downed and one home on Tecumseh Road suffered roof damage.

The wider storm

Broad troughing was present aloft across the Western US during the afternoon/evening of the 19th. An area of surface low-pressure slowly deepened and moved towards north-central Kansas, with dryline extending from central Kansas through western-north Texas by the late afternoon hours. A well-timed lead upper wave, combined with broken insolation, led to the development of a few supercell thunderstorms across central Oklahoma. Multiple instances of large to very large (>2 inches) hail, along with 18 tornadoes, occurred across central Oklahoma.

Began near Lake Thunderbird Dam (35.2550, -97.1870).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 McClain County 1 deadEF3 Pottawatomie CountyEF2 Cleveland CountyEF2 Cleveland CountyEF2 Pottawatomie CountyEF2 Pottawatomie CountyEF1 Grady CountyEF1 McClain CountyEF1 McClain CountyEF1 McClain CountyEF1 McClain CountyEF1 Cleveland CountyEF1 Pottawatomie CountyEF1 Pottawatomie CountyEF0 Cleveland CountyEF0 Cleveland County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1095059. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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