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EF2 tornado in Payne County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 9, 2016 · Payne County, Oklahoma

EF2

Rating

6.3 mi

Whole path

600 yd

Path width

$260K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

This tornado moved into Payne County from Noble County near Glencoe road moving northeast and then north-northeast crossing back into Noble County between Country Club Road and Sangre Road. At least two houses and two outbuildings were damaged in Payne County in addition to tree and power pole damage.

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 (swo)stillwater Airport (36.2170, -97.1410).

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 EF1 Atoka County EFU Cleveland County EFU Johnston County EFU Atoka County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 633103. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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