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EF0 tornado in Lincoln County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 21, 2019 · Lincoln County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

2.2 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$6K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

This QLCS tornado developed in Pottawatomie County just south of the Lincoln County line, and immediately moved into Lincoln County. The tornado moved north-northwest and then northeast dissipating about 1.5 miles east of Meeker. There were two outbuildings damaged and a number of 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 Meeker (35.4630, -96.8560).

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 830449. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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