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EF1 tornado in Nowata County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 30, 2019 · Nowata County, Oklahoma

EF1
Rating
7.5 mi
Path length
900 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 900 yards (0.51 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 east of Lenapah where large tree limbs were snapped on the N 4150 Road, and moved north-northeast uprooting trees and snapping large tree limbs. It was observed by multiple people. Based on the damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed across eastern Oklahoma during the early afternoon hours of the 30th, to the east of a stationary frontal boundary that was located across north-central Oklahoma into northwest Texas. Moderately strong instability combined with strong wind shear resulted in the development of supercell thunderstorms, which produced multiple tornadoes, including two strong tornadoes, large hail up to half dollar size, and damaging winds. Locally heavy rainfall also occurred across portions of northeastern Oklahoma, which resulted in flash flooding.

Began near Lenapah (36.8425, -95.6177).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 822202. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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