EF1 tornado in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
Tornado May 24, 2011 · Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Sequoyah County → Crawford County, Arkansas; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 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 Sequoyah County, this tornado snapped or uprooted a number of large trees. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 105 mph. The tornado continued into Crawford County, Arkansas.
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 Greenwood Jct (35.4400, -94.4595).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
9 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 312979. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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