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EF2 tornado in Tillman County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 2, 2018 · Tillman County, Oklahoma

EF2
Rating
4.1 mi
Path length
600 yd
Path width
$5K
Damage as recorded
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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 developed approximately 3 miles northwest of Loveland, on the north side of a large and destructive area of thunderstorm winds that moved from near the Frederick airport to near Loveland (see above). The tornado initially moved south-southeast, and then curved to the southeast and east in an area southwest of Loveland. Except for one outbuilding that was destroyed southwest of Loveland, the damage was primarily to trees and power poles. Much of the path remained over open fields.

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 Loveland (34.3240, -98.8090).

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 759147. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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