F0 tornado in Lincoln County, Oklahoma

This is the final segment of the tornado that began four miles south of Luther in Oklahoma County and moved northeast into Lincoln County before dissipating south-southwest of Wellston. The tornado had an entire path length of 7 miles, of which 3.6 miles were in Lincoln County. The extent of the damage found in Lincoln County was determined to be of F0 damage. Many tree limbs were broken or snapped along the path. A section of fence was downed and a tree was broken in the area of NS331 Road north of EW095 Road. Sheet metal was found in the trees along with broken limbs located north of EW095 Road and west of Highway 102. A power pole was found bent with broken tree limbs found in the fence line, north of EW095 on Highway 102 just before the tornado dissipated.

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.