Tornado in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 20, 2019 · Kingfisher County, Oklahoma

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Not rated

4.2 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Kingfisher County → Kingfisher County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado was observed by OKC television storm chasers and helicopters to the north of Cashion. No damage was reported, and the path was estimated using landscape comparisons from helicopter video.

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 Cashion (35.8970, -97.7160).

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 830804. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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