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EF0 tornado in Haskell County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 22, 2024 · Haskell County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

2.9 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 is the second segment of a two-segment tornado. The tornado moved into Haskell County near Highway 31. It moved east, and then east-northeast, dissipating north of Highway 31 and Highway 2, snapping numerous large tree limbs along its path. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 80 to 85 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe thunderstorms redeveloped over eastern Oklahoma during the morning of the 22nd, as a cold front continued to move through the area. Thunderstorms that developed north of the cold front produced hail up to penny size. The atmosphere ahead of the cold front was moist and very unstable, and this instability combined with strong deep layer wind shear resulted in the development of some supercell thunderstorms. These storms moved through southeastern Oklahoma through the early afternoon, producing large hail up to hen egg size, one tornado, and damaging wind gusts.

Began near Lewisville (35.1260, -95.3490).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1184304. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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