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EF1 tornado in Creek County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 19, 2013 · Creek County, Oklahoma

EF1
Rating
14.4 mi
Whole path
200 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lincoln County → Okfuskee County → Creek 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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 third segment of a three segment tornado, continuing from Okfuskee County. In Creek County, this tornado snapped large tree limbs and uprooted a few small trees. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 85 to 95 mph.

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 Iron Post (35.6391, -96.4649).

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 442446. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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