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EF1 tornado in Love County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 1, 2019 · Love County, Oklahoma

EF1

Rating

6.8 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

A tornado moved northeast in Love County embedded within a larger area of damaging winds. Although most of the damage was to trees, one mobile home was blown off of it's foundation and destroyed about 3.5 miles east-southeast of Leon.

The wider storm

Outflow boundaries from previous days storms provided focus for thunderstorm development with a variety of severe weather on the 1st.

Began near Leon (33.8330, -97.3950).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Love County EF0 Love County EFU Jefferson County EFU Jefferson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 829285. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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