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EF2 tornado in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 16, 2017 · Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

EF2

Rating

10.2 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$40K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

Firefighters observed a tornado develop about 6 miles south of Reydon at 6:18 pm CDT. Power poles were snapped along SH-30. The roof of a barn was removed and additional power poles were snapped as the tornado moved northeast between SH-30 and SH-47. Numerous power poles were snapped near SH-47. The tornado moved northeast, then east-northeast snapping additional power poles, uprooting trees, took the roof off a ranch hotel, and turned over a 16-foot grain feeder that was full of grain. Damage costs are a rough estimate.

The wider storm

Storms formed along the dryline in the Texas panhandle on the afternoon of the 16th before moving eastward. As a cold front caught up to the storms, convection increased and storms began to form into a line. This line continued eastward across the state overnight into the 17th.

Began near Reydon (35.5640, -99.9170).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Beckham County 1 dead EF1 Roger Mills County EFU Beckham County EFU Beckham County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 702625. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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