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EF0 tornado in Craig County, Oklahoma

Tornado September 1, 2014 · Craig County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 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 EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A brief tornado was reported over open country. No known damage occurred with this tornado.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed near an outflow boundary across northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas during the early evening hours of the 1st. These storms moved across portions of northeastern Oklahoma during the evening, producing large hail up to baseball size, damaging wind gusts of upwards of 80 mph, a brief tornado, and locally heavy rainfall.

Began near Welch (36.9279, -95.1000).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 543894. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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