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EF0 tornado in Cotton County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 2, 2025 · Cotton County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$25K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 damaged the roof of a mobile home and damaged an outbuilding near US Highway 277 north of Cookietown.

The wider storm

Numerous severe thunderstorms impacted portions of central and southern Oklahoma and western-north Texas early on the morning of the 2nd. Synoptically, this convective episode was driven by the approach of a weak shortwave trough rounding the periphery of a broader upper system across the Central and Northern Plains. Very strong elevated instability and sufficient wind shear promoted organized thunderstorm clusters and eventually a semi-organized line across the aforementioned region, producing large hail, thunderstorm wind damage and a tornado. Heavy rainfall contributed to flash flooding, particularly across parts of southern Oklahoma that continued to be impacted by prolonged river and stream flooding.

Began near Walters Arpt (34.3420, -98.4530).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1261188. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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