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F0 tornado in Latimer County, Oklahoma

Tornado November 9, 1998 · Latimer County, Oklahoma

F0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$11K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

An F0 tornado destroyed a barn, blew shingles off roofs, and downed numerous trees/power poles near Boggy.

The wider storm

Summary of events for November 9-10 1998:A solid north-south line of severe thunderstorms raced across all of eastern Oklahoma on the evening of November 9. This was in association with the cold front trailing from a powerful "Colorado low" moving across the central plains. This narrow line of storms produced strong to severe wind gusts along its entire length, with gusts estimated as high as 80 mph. There were also reports of hail as large as quarters.Late in the evening, a portion of the line in southeast Oklahoma bowed out once it passed McAlester, producing more severe wind damage and funnel clouds from eastern Pittsburg County to the Arkansas state line. A tornado touched down southwest of Fort Smith between Arkoma and Pocola, travelling northeast for 5 miles across the southern part of Fort Smith.

Began near Red Oak (34.9800, -95.0300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5671598. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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