F0 tornado in Creek County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 19, 2003 · Creek County, Oklahoma

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

50 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 F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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 trained spotter reported an F0 tornado three miles north of Welty in Creek county. The tornado lasted approximately five minutes and traveled through rural areas causing little more than tree damage. Later tornado reports from this storm turned out to be funnel-shaped scud as the storm approached the Tulsa metro area.

Began near Tuskegee (36.5667, -96.7000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Washington County F1 Osage County F1 Nowata County F0 Pawnee County F0 Pittsburg County F0 Haskell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5354413. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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