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EF2 tornado in Bryan County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 9, 2016 · Bryan County, Oklahoma

EF2

Rating

13.8 mi

Whole path

2,500 yd

Path width

Injuries

$3.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 2,500 yards (1.42 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

A tornado developed southeast of Bennington, and quickly became very large as it moved east-northeast. Widespread destruction of trees was observed across eastern Bryan County. The tornado moved into Choctaw County southwest of Boswell. See the eastern Oklahoma Storm Data entry from NWS Tulsa for information about this tornado in Choctaw County.

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 Bennington (33.9647, -95.9914).

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 EF2 Noble County EF1 Atoka County EFU Cleveland County EFU Johnston County EFU Atoka County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 633106. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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