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EF0 tornado in Murray County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 23, 2015 · Murray County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

3.0 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

Emergency management spotters observed a tornado that moved north from approximately 1 mile north to 4 miles north of Sulphur. A workshop was damaged, but otherwise no significant damage is known to have occurred.

The wider storm

Storms developed in the panhandles on the 23rd under the influence of an upper level trough. These storms merged into a line and moved eastward over Oklahoma producing widespread flooding.

Began near Sulphur (34.5245, -96.9700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Grady County EF1 McClain County EF1 Garvin County EF1 Pontotoc County EF0 Pontotoc County EF0 Murray County EF0 Garvin County EF0 McClain County EF0 Hughes County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 584402. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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