Home / Oklahoma / Oklahoma

EF0 tornado in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 25, 2015 · Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

A small, short-lived tornado touched down south of NW 10th Street and Rockwell Avenue in western Oklahoma City. Two outbuildings were severely damaged and three houses suffered damage to roof shingles.

The wider storm

A strong upper level storm system moved across the Southern Plains during the late afternoon and evening. At the surface, a slow moving cold front and dryline served as foci for severe thunderstorm development. With strong instability and wind shear, very large hail and damaging winds were widespread. A couple of tornadoes also developed, with the most significant tornado moving through portions of the south Oklahoma City metro.

Began near Bethany (35.4760, -97.6350).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Cleveland County EF0 Canadian County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 611520. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

Tornadoes near your address

See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.