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F1 tornado in Creek County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 29, 2004 · Creek County, Oklahoma

Rating

12.1 mi

Whole path

425 yd

Path width

$500K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Creek County → Creek County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 425 yards (0.24 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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 is the tornado mentioned in the previous entry. It formed near and just after the first tornado and traveled mainly through open territory. However, some of the structural damage that was mentioned earlier occurred along its path.

Began near Depew (35.8667, -96.4667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Creek County F1 Mayes County F0 Creek County F0 Wagoner County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5398963. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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