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EF2 Tornado — Mccurtain, Oklahoma

2009-04-09 · near Eagletown, Mccurtain, Oklahoma

$1K

Property damage

0.3 mi

Path length

850 yds

Path width

Event narrative

The tornado first touched down in extreme east central McCurtain County just one quarter of a mile from the McCurtain County, Sevier County line. Several trees were downed on the McCurtain County side of the state line with a few power lines downed as well.

Wider weather episode

A strong upper level storm system along with a surface dry line/front

over northeast Texas moved east during the evening hours of April 9th into the early morning hours of April 10th causing long lived supercell thunderstorms. These thunderstorms caused long track tornadoes to occur across southeast Oklahoma, southwest Arkansas, northeast Texas, and north Louisiana.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (34.0100, -94.4800)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 154447. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.