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EF0 tornado in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 6, 2026 · Okfuskee County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
5.0 mi
Path length
160 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 160 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

Storm chaser video and a debris signature from KINX WSR-88D indicated this tornado began west of Highway 48, about 6 miles north-northwest of Castle. The tornado crossed Highway 48, where it damaged the roof of two mobile homes and snapped tree limbs along the E980 Road before dissipating. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 70 to 75 mph.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed into eastern Oklahoma during the late afternoon of the 6th, ahead of a surface dry line, and moved across the area through the evening hours. The atmosphere had become strongly unstable across eastern Oklahoma during the afternoon east of the dry line. This instability, combined with very strong low-level and deep-layer wind shear across the region, resulted in the evolution of several long-lived supercell thunderstorms. These supercells produced eleven tornadoes, a couple of which were strong and damaging, large hail up to quarter size, damaging wind gusts, and localized flash flooding.

Began near Mason (35.5490, -96.4160).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1320936. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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