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EF0 tornado in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 25, 2019 · Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Within the larger area of thunderstorm wind damage, a small tornado developed just southeast of NE 42nd Street and Kelley Avenue and moved northeast to near NE 43rd Street and Everest Avenue. A church sign was destroyed and large trees were uprooted (although in ground that was much wetter than usual after recent heavy rainfall.) One of these trees fell onto a parked car.

The wider storm

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

Began near Forest Park (35.5160, -97.4920).

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 830371. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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