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EF0 tornado in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 5, 2007 · Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
5.0 mi
Whole path
200 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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

Storm chasers observed a third tornado from the northern tornadic supercell that developed just south of the Canadian River in northern Roger Mills County, about 4 miles north of Crawford. The tornado moved north-northeast and crossed into Ellis County. No damage was reported along the path of this tornado.

The wider storm

An upper level storm system moved slowly into south central Colorado during the afternoon. A dry line had become established and was located along the Oklahoma and Texas panhandle border. Also, favorable upper level winds were rotating around the upper level storm system, crossing the dryline over western Oklahoma. As the afternoon progressed, convergence along the dryline became maximized over this area. Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon hours and they quickly became supercells. Two of the supercells produced several tornadoes. The northern tornadic storm produced five tornadoes from southwest of Roll to just east of Arnett. The southern tornadic storm also produced five tornadoes in Oklahoma from near Sweetwater to near Sharon. Large hail was also observed. The supercells moved northeast out of Oklahoma during the late evening hours. Monetary values for the tornado damage were estimated.

Began near Crawford (35.8878, -99.8000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 35780. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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