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EF0 tornado in Creek County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 19, 2013 · Creek County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A brief tornado was photographed by a Fox23 storm chaser. No damage is known to have occurred from this tornado as it remained over open country.

The wider storm

Early morning thunderstorms produced isolated wind damage across northeastern Oklahoma during the morning of the 19th but more widespread severe weather occurred later in the day. Severe thunderstorms developed across central Oklahoma along a dry line during the late afternoon hours. Very unstable air combined with very strong wind shear allowed these storms to evolve rapidly into supercells, which produced several damaging tornadoes in central Oklahoma before moving into eastern Oklahoma. Most of these supercell thunderstorms gradually weakened as they moved into the eastern portion of the state. The storm that produced damaging tornadoes around Shawnee also produced a strong tornado west and northwest of Prague, and another north northeast of Prague that moved across northwestern Okfuskee County. Another supercell produced a brief tornado northwest of Shamrock in northwestern Creek County before weakening as it moved further into northeastern Oklahoma. Large hail and damaging wind was reported across portions of northeastern Oklahoma during the evening.

Began near Shamrock (35.9323, -96.6143).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 442444. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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