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EF2 tornado in Le Flore County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 24, 2011 · Le Flore County, Oklahoma

EF2
Rating
12.0 mi
Path length
1,760 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1,760 yards (1.00 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

A tornado destroyed a mobile home, damaged several permanent homes, snapped dozens of power poles, and snapped or uprooted numerous large trees. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 115 mph.

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 Reichert (34.8256, -94.7248).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Osage CountyEF2 Muskogee CountyEF2 Wagoner CountyEF1 Osage CountyEF1 Delaware CountyEF1 Delaware CountyEF1 Latimer CountyEF1 Sequoyah CountyEF0 Le Flore County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 312972. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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