EF0 tornado — Dewey County, Oklahoma

EF0 tornado in Dewey County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 5, 2026 · Dewey County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 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

An OKC television storm chaser observed and photographed a tornado esimated to be about 6 miles west of Putnam. No damage was reported.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms impacted portions of western and northern Oklahoma from the late evening of the 5th into early morning hours of the 6th. This activity developed in the vicinity of a dryline as a deep upper trough began to establish across the Four Coners. As a nocturnal low-level jet strengthened after sunset, a pair of cyclic tornadic thunderstorms emerged from the eastern Texas Panhandle into northern Oklahoma. In addition to several tornadoes, including a deadly tornado west of Fairview in Major County, large hail and eventually damaging wind gusts were observed with severe convection across the region.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1324856. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Dewey County, Oklahoma

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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