EF2 Tornado — Wagoner, Oklahoma

2013-05-30 · near Broken Arrow, Wagoner, Oklahoma

Event narrative

This is the second and final segment of this tornado. As the tornado crossed into Wagoner County south of E 91st Street South it blew down trees and damaged barns. Roofs of homes were damaged as it crossed E 91st Street South near S 199th E Avenue, where it also snapped trees and damaged barns. The tornado turned more east crossing open fields and the Muskogee Turnpike. A gas station, several metal buildings, and a small wood-framed building was damaged as it crossed Highway 51.

The tornado appeared to intensify as it approached and crossed S 225th E Avenue where several homes were severely damaged. The most pronounced damage followed as the tornado moved into a subdivision north of E 91st Street South, where the second floor of one home was destroyed. Several other homes in this neighborhood sustained major damage to their roofs and exterior walls. The tornado continued to move eastward, crossing the Muskogee Turnpike where it snapped numerous large trees. Two school buildings lost a number of windows as the tornado approached S 257th E Avenue. A home was damaged and a large outbuilding was destroyed in this area. Trees were snapped along and near Joy Avenue before the tornado dissipated.

Maximum estimated wind in this segment of this tornado based on this damage was 125 to 135 mph.

Wider weather episode

A complex of storms that had been over portions of eastern Oklahoma during the early morning hours intensified during the late morning and afternoon resulting in isolated reports of large hail and damaging wind. A much more widespread severe weather event occurred later in the day as severe thunderstorms redeveloped across central and eastern Oklahoma during the afternoon hours ahead of a dry line over central Oklahoma and along an outflow boundary across northeastern Oklahoma. The storms produced large hail and damaging wind. A bow echo type of storm produced a brief tornado in northern Creek County during the afternoon. Two supercell thunderstorms moved along the outflow boundary from the morning thunderstorms and produced several tornadoes during the evening. One storm produced several tornadoes across Mayes County and the other produced a damaging tornado in Broken Arrow.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 455319. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.