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EF0 tornado in Beckham County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 29, 2013 · Beckham County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
0.8 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
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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 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 storm chaser observed a weak tornado in far southern Beckham County near the Harmon and Greer County intersection. A funnel was observed with a rotating column of dust observed. The tornado produced no known damage.

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 Erick (35.0330, -99.8840).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Canadian CountyEF1 Cleveland County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 465046. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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