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F0 tornado in Ellis County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 21, 2004 · Ellis County, Oklahoma

F0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
200 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

This large multi-vortex tornado was videotaped by a storm chaser. No damage was reported.

The wider storm

A major hail storm moved through the Oklahoma City metro on this day primarily affecting the western and northern sides of the city. Hail up to the size of baseballs was observed along with many areas reporting hail on the ground ranging from 3 inches deep to 2 feet deep. The hail damaged numerous structures and vehicles with several people also needing their vehicles towed or dug out of the hail on streets across the city. Damage estimates across the Oklahoma City metro were 100 million dollars. Storms also produced two tornadoes in Ellis county in northwest Oklahoma with no known damage reported.

Began near Shattuck (35.0333, -97.4000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F0 Ellis County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5390253. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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