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EF0 tornado in McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 10, 2010 · McIntosh County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
100 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

A tornado snapped numerous large tree limbs. The estimated peak wind in the tornado based on this damage was 80 mph.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed along and ahead of a dry line over central Oklahoma during the afternoon hours. Very unstable air along with very strong low level wind shear resulted in a number of supercell thunderstorms. These storms produced numerous tornadoes, very large hail, and damaging wind gusts as they moved eastward across eastern Oklahoma during the evening hours.

Began near Burney (35.4303, -95.7911).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Seminole CountyEF2 Okmulgee CountyEF2 McIntosh CountyEF2 McIntosh CountyEF1 Noble CountyEF1 Okfuskee CountyEF1 Okfuskee CountyEF1 McIntosh CountyEF1 McIntosh CountyEF1 Muskogee CountyEF1 Sequoyah CountyEF0 Osage CountyEF0 Osage CountyEF0 Osage County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 237629. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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