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EF0 tornado in Latimer County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 23, 2015 · Latimer County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

1.6 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

This tornado snapped large tree limbs as it moved north. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 75 to 85 mph.

The wider storm

A slow-moving upper level trough of low pressure moved from the Rockies into the Plains on the 23rd and 24th. Very moist and slightly unstable air was in place across the Southern Plains ahead of this system. Several rounds of thunderstorms developed and moved across eastern Oklahoma, resulting in widespread heavy rainfall and flash flooding. An isolated damaging wind event also occurred.

Began near Panola (34.8785, -95.1722).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 579437. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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