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EF0 tornado in Grady County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 6, 2015 · Grady County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
40 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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

Chaser video and an NWS storm survey indicated that a tornado touched down about 3 miles southeast of Tuttle and moved south-southeast. Trees were uprooted (DOD 27, DI 3) and two homes sustained minor damage (DOD 2, DI 2-4).

The wider storm

A potent Spring storm system took shape across the Southern and Central Plains. Strong surface cyclogenesis took shape during the day, allowing ample moisture to return northward with strong southerly flow. At the same time, a strong upper level shortwave trough allowed strong mid level westerlies to overspread much of the Plains region. With large instability and wind shear, the stage was set for widespread severe storm development. Storms initiated within the open warm sector ahead of the dryline. The first storm developed near Lawton and moved northeast along I-44 into parts of central Oklahoma, resulting in several tornadoes and large hail. Additional supercells spawned tornadoes across northern Oklahoma, and the slow moving nature of storms lead to several occurrences of flash flooding. Storms continued well into the night.

Began near Tuttle (35.2534, -97.7779).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Grady CountyEF3 Oklahoma CountyEF1 McClain CountyEF1 Cleveland CountyEF0 Caddo CountyEF0 Caddo CountyEF0 Major CountyEF0 Grady CountyEF0 Garfield CountyEF0 Cleveland CountyEF0 Dewey CountyEF0 Caddo CountyEF0 Grant CountyEF0 Grady County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 581863. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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