EF0 tornado — Greer County, Oklahoma

EF0 tornado in Greer County, Oklahoma

Tornado November 18, 2024 · Greer County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

4.4 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 southwest of Mangum and moved north. A trailer was overturned east of Mangum and tree limb damage was also observed.

The wider storm

An intense (90-knot) mid-level jet streak lifted from the Texas Big Bend region into the Southern High Plains early on the 18th. An extensive quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) took shape across West Texas and moved into portions of western Oklahoma and western-north Texas during this time. With anomalously strong kinematics and marginally sufficient wind shear, a few portions of the line produced reports of thunderstorm wind damage and multiple brief/weak tornadoes. With time, the convective system gradually weakened into portions of central and eastern Oklahoma, producing only sporadic wind gusts/damage by daybreak.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1221997. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Greer County, Oklahoma

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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