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EF0 tornado in McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 4, 2025 · McIntosh County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

1.6 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 north of the E 1090 Road and west of New Texanna Road, where large tree limbs were snapped, the roof of a barn was blown off, and the roof of a home was damaged. The tornado moved northeast snapping large tree limbs as it crossed the S 4260 Road, and dissipated. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 80 to 85 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 Checotah (35.4380, -95.4580).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Okmulgee County EF1 Okmulgee County EF1 McIntosh County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1242795. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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