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EF1 tornado in Woods County, Oklahoma

Tornado November 16, 2015 · Woods County, Oklahoma

EF1

Rating

3.2 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

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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

Significant tree damage was reported by emergency management along highway 34 about 3 miles south of the Kansas state line. No other damage is known to have occurred in Oklahoma. This tornado moved into Comanche County KS about 1 mile east of highway 34. (See Storm Data for Southwest Kansas from NWS Dodge City for information about that portion of the tornado).

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 Camp Houston (36.9550, -99.3240).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Ellis County EF1 Ellis County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 603784. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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