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EF0 tornado in Kiowa County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 2, 2018 · Kiowa County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
1.7 mi
Whole path
30 yd
Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

The tornado moved across the north part of Lake Altus-Lugert from Greer County into Kiowa County. Only minor tree damage was noted.

The wider storm

Several discrete supercells formed off a dryline in the eastern parts of the panhandles in the late afternoon of the 2nd. These storms moved eastward through the evening, eventually congealing into a line before coming across central Oklahoma. QLCS tornadoes became a significant hazard at this point. After this round of storms made its way out of the area, scattered storms began to form from central Texas up into south western Oklahoma overnight, moving generally northeast into the early morning hours.

Began near Lone Wolf (34.9390, -99.3180).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 759130. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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