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EF2 tornado in Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 24, 2011 · Muskogee County, Oklahoma

EF2

Rating

10.2 mi

Whole path

400 yd

Path width

$110K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Muskogee County → Wagoner County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

This is the first of two segments of this tornado. In Muskogee County, the tornado destroyed a mobile home and a barn, damaged several other permanent homes, and snapped power poles and large trees. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 125 mph. The tornado continued into Wagoner County, Oklahoma. Several storm chasers, storm spotters, and citizens witnessed this tornado.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed along a dry line over central Oklahoma during the afternoon hours. Very unstable air and strong wind shear east of the dry line supported supercell thunderstorm structures, which persisted as the storms moved into eastern Oklahoma during the evening hours. These severe storms produced tornadoes, large hail to golfball size, and very strong damaging downburst wind across much of eastern Oklahoma.

Began near Jamesville (35.7631, -95.7423).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Osage County EF2 Wagoner County EF2 Le Flore County EF1 Osage County EF1 Delaware County EF1 Delaware County EF1 Latimer County EF1 Sequoyah County EF0 Le Flore County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 310375. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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