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EF0 tornado in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 30, 2025 · Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

A storm chaser with broadcast media reported a brief tornado. The tornado snapped large tree limbs and damaged the roof of an outbuilding. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 75 to 80 mph.

The wider storm

Multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms developed across portions of eastern Oklahoma on the 30th, along and ahead of a cold front moving into the area with the approach of an upper level disturbance. The first round moved into the area during the early morning hours with damaging wind, and the second round moved across the area during the late morning and afternoon with a couple tornadoes and damaging wind.

Began near Akins (35.5100, -94.6580).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EFU Haskell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1257153. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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