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EF0 tornado in Love County, Oklahoma

Tornado June 15, 2023 · Love County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 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 research meteorologist observed a tornado just northeast of Marietta. Some light tree damage occurred with this tornado.

The wider storm

The approach of an anomalously strong (for mid-June) upper-level disturbance lead to a widespread severe weather outbreak across portions of the forecast area, especially along and west of the I-35 corridor, during the afternoon into late evening of the 15th. This included the development of numerous supercell thunderstorms across the area. Despite relatively high cloud bases, strong low-level instability and sufficient low-level wind shear aided tornadic outcomes, with eleven tornadoes confirmed across western into southern Oklahoma. Numerous reports of large to very large hail, including reports of 4-inch hail in Lawton, and wind damage were received across area.

Began near Marietta (33.9500, -97.1150).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Stephens CountyEF1 Ellis CountyEF1 Stephens CountyEF1 Stephens CountyEF0 Comanche CountyEF0 Cotton CountyEFU Stephens CountyEFU Jefferson CountyEFU Roger Mills County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1114478. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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