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F1 tornado in Lincoln County, Oklahoma

Tornado June 9, 2004 · Lincoln County, Oklahoma

Rating

4.0 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A tornado touched down near Highway 66 west of Chandler, moved northeast, and lifted near Chandler Lake. This tornado damaged trees and power lines. Several roofs of homes were damaged along with several barns damaged or destroyed. A mobile home was destroyed near Chandler Lake before the tornado lifted. Several horses were injured and a cow and a horse were killed by debris in the tornado.

The wider storm

A tropical airmass over the area produced widespread showers and a few thunderstorms. A couple of these weak storms were similar to mini-supercell thunderstorms, contained very little lightning, and produced brief tornadoes that caused some damage in central Oklahoma during the evening of June 9th.

Began near Chandler (35.7000, -96.9667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Lincoln County F0 Cleveland County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5407998. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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