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Tornado in Atoka County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 9, 2016 · Atoka County, Oklahoma

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Not rated
0.3 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
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.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A storm chaser observed a brief tornado south of the larger Atoka/Coal County tornado. This tornado may have been anticyclonic. No damage is known to have occurred with this tornado.

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 Boggy Depot State Park (34.3850, -96.3580).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Garvin County 1 deadEF3 Johnston County 1 deadEF3 Murray CountyEF3 Bryan CountyEF2 Noble CountyEF1 Atoka CountyEFU Cleveland CountyEFU Johnston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 633097. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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