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EF0 tornado in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Tornado October 9, 2018 · Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 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

A small, weak tornado developed near NE 23rd Street and Kelley Avenue and moving northeast to an area just southeast of NE 36th Street and Prospect Avenue. This tornado produced damage to a power pole just south of NE 23rd Street and a snapped a few tree branches along the path. One tree snapped falling onto a carport and car along Prospect Avenue.

The wider storm

A narrow line of thunderstorms formed during the morning of the 9th along a fast-moving pre-frontal trough, producing numerous brief tornadoes along with a few wind and flood reports.

Began near Oklahoma City (35.4930, -97.4910).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Love CountyEF1 Oklahoma CountyEF1 Cleveland CountyEF0 Cleveland CountyEF0 Oklahoma CountyEF0 Oklahoma CountyEF0 Lincoln County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 790184. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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