EF0 tornado in Murray County, Oklahoma

Tornado October 7, 2018 · Murray County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

1.0 mi

Whole path

20 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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

Numerous storm chasers and storm spotters observed a relatively weak tornado that formed just east of Interstate 35 west of Davis. The tornado moved northeast crossing State Highway 7 into Garvin County near NS328 Road. Other than some tree limb damage, no other damage was reported.

The wider storm

A warm front lifted north through Oklahoma during the day on the 7th, producing numerous thunderstorms.

Began near Davis (34.5010, -97.1660).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 790177. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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