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EF0 tornado in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 20, 2019 · Kingfisher County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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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

An Oklahoma City television storm chaser observed a brief tornado to his southeast from US-81 4.5 miles south of Hennessey. No damage was reported.

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 Dover (36.0380, -97.8860).

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 830874. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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