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EF0 tornado in Canadian County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 25, 2015 · Canadian County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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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 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 short lived anticyclonic tornado developed near 15th street and Gregory road in Yukon. No damage is known to have occurred.

The wider storm

A strong upper level storm system moved across the Southern Plains during the late afternoon and evening. At the surface, a slow moving cold front and dryline served as foci for severe thunderstorm development. With strong instability and wind shear, very large hail and damaging winds were widespread. A couple of tornadoes also developed, with the most significant tornado moving through portions of the south Oklahoma City metro.

Began near Yukon (35.4600, -97.8300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Cleveland County EF0 Oklahoma County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 568695. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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