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EF0 tornado in Canadian County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 26, 2016 · Canadian County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

4.1 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$12K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Canadian County → Oklahoma County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A weak tornado, embedded within a larger area of damaging thunderstorm winds, developed near SW 59th Street and Sara Road on the north side of Mustang, and moved northeast crossing into Oklahoma County just south of SW 29th Street. In Canadian County, two outbuildings suffered roof damage, but the primary damage was to trees along the path.

The wider storm

The 26th began with a few isolated storms forming out ahead of the dryline and becoming severe. Later in the afternoon, the dryline surged east and storms fired along the boundary. These storms quickly became severe and gradually merged into a line as they moved eastward through the evening.

Began near Mustang (35.4070, -97.7070).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Oklahoma County EF1 Pontotoc County EF0 Oklahoma County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 627328. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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