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EF0 tornado in Creek County, Oklahoma

Tornado November 3, 2024 · Creek County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

4.6 mi

Path length

400 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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 west of the S 289th West Avenue and south of W 161st Street S. It moved northeast and dissipated after crossing W 151st Street S, to the east of S 241st West Avenue. Several outbuildings were severely damaged, a couple trees were uprooted, numerous large tree limbs were snapped, and power poles were blown down by the tornado. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 80 to 85 mph.

The wider storm

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms became organized over central Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 3rd. These thunderstorms developed into and across eastern Oklahoma, producing damaging wind gusts and a tornado. Locally heavy rainfall from these thunderstorms produced some isolated flash flooding.

Began near Bellvue (35.9160, -96.3210).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1219323. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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