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EF0 tornado in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Tornado October 9, 2018 · Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

4.6 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

An outbuilding was damaged as a tornado developed just south of NE 23rd Street and Choctaw Road. The tornado then produced sporadic tree damage as it move northeast to near NE 63rd Street and Peebly Road.

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 Choctaw (35.4910, -97.2640).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Love County EF1 Oklahoma County EF1 Cleveland County EF0 Oklahoma County EF0 Cleveland County EF0 Oklahoma County EF0 Lincoln County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 790203. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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