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EF0 tornado in Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Tornado October 9, 2018 · Cleveland County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
3.5 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 developed just north of Lindsey Street near the southwestern part of Lake Thunderbird between 84th Avenue SE and 108th Avenue SE, then moved northeast across the western part of Lake Thunderbird. The tornado moved off the lake south of Alameda Drive and 108th Avenue NE and continued northeast before dissipating just east of 120th Avenue SE and Rock Creek Road. Damage was confined to trees along the path.

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 Lake Thunderbird Dam (35.2060, -97.3010).

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 Oklahoma CountyEF0 Oklahoma CountyEF0 Oklahoma CountyEF0 Lincoln County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 790191. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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