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EF1 tornado in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 16, 2017 · Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

EF1

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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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.

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

A tornado damaged the water tank off a well site and blew over a cottonwood tree between Roll and Strong City.

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 Roll (35.7500, -99.6900).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 702626. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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