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Tornado in Kiowa County, Oklahoma

Tornado May 20, 2019 · Kiowa County, Oklahoma

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Not rated

0.5 mi

Path length

30 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.

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

Multiple storm spotters and storm chasers observed a brief tornado estimated to be about 4 miles north-northeast of Lone Wolf. 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 Lone Wolf (35.0435, -99.2230).

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 831210. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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