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EF0 tornado in Garfield County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 20, 2019 · Garfield County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

7.7 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$75K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

A spotter reported a tornado developing near Bison Road and Eason Road in southeasten Garfield County, then moved northeast into Noble County. No damage was reported in Garfield County.

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 Hayward (36.1900, -97.4950).

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 831180. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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