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EF1 tornado in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 4, 2025 · Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

EF1
Rating
5.8 mi
Whole path
400 yd
Path width
$85K
Damage as recorded

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

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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 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 tornado developed west of the N 270 Road and north of Gun Club Road, where an RV was rolled and large tree limbs were snapped. It moved east-northeast across the N 280 Road, where the roof of a home was damaged, and several power poles were snapped. The tornado then crossed Smith Road, blowing down power poles and damaging a home. It moved northeast across Highway 52 snapping large tree limbs and damaging the roof of another home before dissipating. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 95 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed into eastern Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 4th, as a strong storm system translated from the Southern Rockies into the Southern Plains. Instability was weak but wind shear was very strong ahead of the attendant surface low pressure system and frontal boundaries. This allowed the thunderstorms to produce several tornadoes and damaging wind gusts.

Began near Morris Arpt (35.6600, -95.8930).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Okmulgee CountyEF1 McIntosh CountyEF0 McIntosh County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1242788. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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