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EF0 tornado in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 25, 2019 · Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.9 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

An area of damage consistent with a narrow QLCS tornado was found within a larger swath of damaging winds. This tornado developed near NW 11th Terrace and Warren Place and moved east along and just north of Liberty Avenue to just north of Liberty Avenue and Portland Avenue. Besides trees, damage was also observed to house roofs, porches and car ports with evidence of debris lofted.

The wider storm

Scattered supercells merged into a linear system that produced a variety of severe weather on the 25th.

Began near Warr Acres (35.4810, -97.5990).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Canadian County 2 dead EF0 Oklahoma County EF0 Oklahoma County EF0 Oklahoma County EF0 Cleveland County EFU Greer County EFU Beckham County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 830341. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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