EF2 tornado in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 21, 2019 · Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma

EF2

Rating

2.6 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

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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 EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 QLCS tornado developed north of Interstate 40 about 1 mile east of Dale and moved north-northwest and then turned northeast to just west of Wolverine Road and Bethel Road. One mobile home was destroyed and several outbuildings were severely damaged on Westech Road near the beginning of the tornado path. Otherwise damage was generally to trees along the path.

The wider storm

An extremely unstable environment led to widespread severe weather across Texas and Oklahoma on the 20th into the morning of the 21st.

Began near Dale (35.3870, -97.0280).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 830440. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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