F2 tornado — McCurtain County, Oklahoma

F2 tornado in McCurtain County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 14, 2003 · McCurtain County, Oklahoma

Rating

78.3 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through McCurtain County → Bowie County, Texas → Cass County, Texas; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A violent thunderstorm moved rapidly southeast across McCurtain County, OK into Bowie County, TX and Cass County, TX. This thunderstorm also produced a strong Microburst in McCurtain County southeast of Idabel, OK and again southeast of Maud, TX. Numerous trees and limbs were snapped or pushed over while several large corporate and private corn fields were ripped up. The only structure in the path of this tornado was located next to the Highway 259 bridge which crosses the Red River into Bowie County, TX.. This tornado moved into Bowie and Cass Counties, TX.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5353102. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F2 tornado in McCurtain County, Oklahoma

What the National Weather Service wrote

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