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EF1 tornado in Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 29, 2013 · Cleveland County, Oklahoma

EF1
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
$40K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

A tornado touched down very briefly in the southwest portion of the city of Norman, damaging a home near Fairfield Drive and Belmont Drive. No other damage occurred. The damage amount was estimated.

The wider storm

A large upper trough was ejecting out of the Rockies, with a dryline extending from western Nebraska through the Texas Panhandle. Strong wind shear and instability were in place over the southern Plains. Supercells developed along the dryline during the early to mid afternoon, then progressed eastward into western Oklahoma, producing hail, wind and isolated tornadoes. Additional severe thunderstorms developed farther east over western and central Oklahoma during the mid to late afternoon, with severe wind and hail reported.

Began near Norman (35.1907, -97.4535).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Canadian CountyEF0 Beckham County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 465044. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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