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EF0 tornado in Craig County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 9, 2009 · Craig County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

2.4 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A tornado tore the roof off of a mobile home, blew down a small billboard, damaged the roofs of several barns and outbuildings, and blew down power poles. Maximum winds based on the damage were estimated to be near 75 mph.

The wider storm

Widespread severe thunderstorms occurred across eastern Oklahoma during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 9th.

Began near Vinita (36.6312, -95.0933).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Le Flore County EF1 Pushmataha County EF1 Le Flore County EF0 Latimer County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 168463. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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