F1 tornado in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

This is the first segment of a tornado that began in Oklahoma County, south of Luther, then moved northeast paralleling Interstate 44. The tornado moved into Lincoln County before dissipating 3.3 miles south-southwest of Wellston. The first area of damage found was located a half a mile south of the intersection of Luther Road and Memorial Road (Northeast 136th Street). The damage in this area was a tree and many tree limbs downed. A house was damaged a quarter of a mile west of the intersection of Memorial Road and Dobbs Road. The house lost a room on the second floor on the south side of the house. The poorly attached roof was also lifted and thrown over with one large section staying almost intact. A shed to the north of the house was damaged with three large limbs from a silver maple found in and near the shed. A trampoline was thrown into trees about 20 yards away and bent around a trunk. A large cedar tree was also broken.The area along Dobbs Road from Memorial Road to approximately a half a mile north of Memorial Road sustained some damage. The majority of which was tree damage with many downed trees and tree limbs and several uprooted trees. An open shed, located 0.14 miles north of the intersection, had its roof peeled back towards the northeast. A mobile home also sustained some light damage in this same location. A small shed was found overturned 0.25 miles north of Memorial Road, along with sheet metal in field and a tree uprooted to the northwest of the small shed. An old mobile home, that appeared to be abandoned, was destroyed 0.3 miles north of the intersection. Across the road from the mobile home, a sheet metal barn lost its walls, but the hay was still intact. A trailer was also pushed over on to a truck in this area.A shed and scattered tree limbs were downed 0.3 miles south of the intersection of Harrah Road and Northeast 150th Street. A half a mile east of Harrah Road a large tree limb, approximately one foot in diameter, was found snapped. On the county line, 0.15 miles north of the intersection of Pottawatomie Road and EW096 Road (NE 150th Street), several tree limbs were downed.This tornado created a path 7 miles long with F1 damage sustained in the area near the intersection of Dobbs Road and Memorial Road.

All of the tornadoes, nine total, that occurred on May 9, 2003 were produced by the same supercell. This thunderstorm developed in southwest Oklahoma along a retreating dryline. The storm moved northeast across Oklahoma eventually dissipating in northeastern Oklahoma. Most of the tornadoes occurred after dark. Three of the tornadoes affected western and northern portions of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan area making two days in a row (see May 8, 2003 data) that the Oklahoma City metro area was affected by a tornadic thunderstorm. The strongest tornado, an F3, moved across portions of the northeastern metro area. Large hail and strong straight-line winds associated with the rear-flank downdraft also occurred with this tornadic supercell. Other severe thunderstorms produced damaging large hail and strong winds across portions of Oklahoma.