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EF0 tornado in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 29, 2025 · Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

2.3 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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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 tornado developed south of Liberty Road and west of the N 300 Road, where large tree limbs were snapped. The tornado moved northeast, damaging multiple outbuildings as it approached Bald Hill Road, and damaged trees until it dissipated east of the N 310 Road and north of Bald Hill Road. 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 late evening of the 29th, ahead of an approaching cold front as a strong upper level disturbance translated into the Southern Plains. The combination of moderately strong instability and strong wind shear allowed the strongest storms to produce a tornado, and damaging wind gusts.

Began near Morris Arpt (35.6810, -95.8440).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1245170. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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