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EF0 tornado in McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 14, 2024 · McIntosh County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

2.7 mi

Path length

350 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 350 yards (0.20 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

This tornado developed just south of I-40, about half a mile east of the Okmulgee/McIntosh County line. It moved northeast snapping large tree limbs and damaging an outbuilding, before dissipating prior to reaching Lake Eufaula. The tornado was reported by a storm chaser, who recorded it after it crossed I-40. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 75 to 80 mph.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed across eastern Oklahoma on the 14th, as a cold front moved through the area. The combination of very strong instability and strong deep-layer wind shear resulted in some supercell thunderstorms developing. The strongest storms produced very large hail to grapefruit size, damaging wind gusts, and a tornado.

Began near Burney (35.4302, -95.8635).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1163022. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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