EF1 tornado in Ellis County, Oklahoma

Tornado November 16, 2015 · Ellis County, Oklahoma

EF1

Rating

43.0 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Hemphill County, Texas → Lipscomb County, Texas → Ellis County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 moved into Oklahoma from Lipscomb County Texas (see Storm Data for the Texas Panhandle from NWS Amarillo for information about the beginning of this tornado). The tornado produced damage to trees and power lines as it move northeast across northern Ellis County.

The wider storm

A line of storms formed along an eastward moving front overnight on the 16th and continued into the morning of the 17th. Several of these storms produced severe winds, and a few produced tornadoes.

Began near Shattuck (36.3270, -100.0000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Ellis County EF1 Woods County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 603781. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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