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EF1 tornado in Atoka County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 9, 2016 · Atoka County, Oklahoma

EF1

Rating

13.0 mi

Whole path

400 yd

Path width

$40K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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

The tornado moved back into Atoka County crossing Division Street near EW-177 Road after moving across southeastern Coal County. More tree damage was observed along Division Street and North Coal Creek Road before the tornado dissipated just east of North Coal Creek Road.

The wider storm

With the help of an upper low, storms fired along the dryline in central Oklahoma on the 9th, with some of them becoming severe.

Began near Atoka (34.4470, -96.1450).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Garvin County 1 dead EF3 Johnston County 1 dead EF3 Murray County EF3 Bryan County EF2 Noble County EFU Cleveland County EFU Johnston County EFU Atoka County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 633094. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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