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EF0 tornado in Cotton County, Oklahoma

Tornado August 28, 2025 · Cotton County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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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

Spotters with Wichita County (TX) Skywarn forwarded photographs taken of a landspout tornado that occurred during the afternoon. One photograph was taken looking northeast from Burkburnett Texas, and another from Cotton County Oklahoma. The specific time and location of this landspout could not determined, but it is believed to have occurred at approximately 4:10 PM CDT to the southwest of Randlett.

The wider storm

Showers and thunderstorms developed in southwest Oklahoma and north Texas on the 28th. A landspout tornado was observed in southwest Oklahoma, but otherwise no severe weather is known to have occurred.

Began near Randlett (34.1595, -98.4847).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1294209. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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