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F0 tornado in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 29, 2004 · Kingfisher County, Oklahoma

Rating

10.6 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Canadian County → Kingfisher County; 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 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

Doppler on Wheels (DOW) data indicate that the tornadic circulation, 9.1 NNW of Calumet in Blaine county, crossed into Kingfisher County 11 miles west of Okarche at 1911 CST. The forward speed slowed as the parent mesocyclone occluded. The tornado then turned west, then south, and finally dissipated at 1915 CST, two miles east of the Blaine/Canadian/Kingfisher county junction. No damage was reported with this portion of the tornado.

The wider storm

On this day one supercell thunderstorm produced all the tornadoes in the state of Oklahoma and a majority of the extremely large hail. This storm began in extreme west central Oklahoma, moved through center sections of the state, and ended in extreme eastern Oklahoma. The storm affected portions of both the Oklahoma City and Tulsa metropolitan areas.

Began near Okarche (35.7333, -98.1667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Oklahoma County F2 Blaine County F1 Logan County F1 Lincoln County F1 Canadian County F1 Canadian County F0 Custer County F0 Logan County F0 Canadian County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5395964. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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