EF1 tornado in Latimer County, Oklahoma
Tornado April 14, 2011 · Latimer County, Oklahoma
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Latimer County → Le Flore County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
This is the first of two segments of this tornado. In Latimer County, this tornado damaged a home, severely damaged a barn, and snapped or uprooted a number of large trees. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 110 mph. The tornado continued into Le Flore County, Oklahoma.
The wider storm
Low pressure was centered over southern Kansas during the early afternoon of the 14th with a sharp dryline extending from the low pressure system through central Oklahoma. A moist and very unstable air mass was in place across eastern Oklahoma ahead of the dryline. Severe thunderstorms developed along the dryline during the afternoon and moved into eastern Oklahoma during the early evening hours. Large hail up to grapefruit size, damaging wind gusts, and numerous tornadoes occurred as the storms moved through the region.
Began near Bengal (34.7298, -95.1245).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
18 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 302805. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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