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EF1 tornado in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 26, 2024 · Okfuskee County, Oklahoma

EF1
Rating
10.1 mi
Whole path
500 yd
Path width
$30K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 is the third segment of a three-segment tornado that developed south of Prague in Pottawatomie County, moved northeast across the southeastern portion of Lincoln County, and finally moved into Okfuskee County southwest of Paden, just south of Highway 62. The tornado dissipated north of Paden. It uprooted trees and snapped large tree limbs in Okfuskee County. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a dry line across northwest Texas and western Oklahoma during the late evening hours of the 25th, as a strong upper level disturbance translated into the Southern Plains. The storms moved east across Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 26th, evolving into a squall line before reaching eastern Oklahoma. This complex of thunderstorms moved through eastern Oklahoma during the morning of the 26th, producing several tornadoes and damaging wind gusts.

Another round of thunderstorms developed into eastern Oklahoma during the afternoon hours of the 26th, as a dry line approached the area from the west. The strongest of these thunderstorms produced large hail up to ping pong ball size and damaging wind gusts.

Began near Paden (35.4870, -96.6240).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1175393. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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