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EF0 tornado in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 25, 2019 · Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
0.7 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

A second area consistent with a tornado was observed within a larger swath of thunderstorm wind damage as a Quasi-Linear Convective System moved through. This tornado developed just west of NW 20th Street and Blackwelder Avenue and initially moved east-northeast. Just west of Douglas Avenue, the tornado turned north until reaching NW 23rd Street, then turned east-northeast dissipating near NW 24th Street and Western Avenue. A restaurant near NW 23rd Street and Douglas suffered roof damage on the east side of the building, and windows were broken in a building that had previously housed Rainbow Records at NW 23rd and Classen. Elsewhere along the path, trees and powerlines were damaged as well as roof damage to one home, an damaged outbuilding, and street signs along NW 23rd.

The wider storm

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

Began near Oklahoma City (35.4900, -97.5390).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Canadian County 2 deadEF0 Oklahoma CountyEF0 Oklahoma CountyEF0 Oklahoma CountyEF0 Cleveland CountyEFU Greer CountyEFU Beckham County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 830358. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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