Tornado in Mayes County, Oklahoma
Tornado January 10, 2020 · Mayes County, Oklahoma
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
Storm chasers positioned in two different locations observed a brief tornado. The area where the tornado occurred was inaccessible by road, thus there was no known damage.
The wider storm
A strong storm system and associated cold front moved into the Southern Plains on the 10th. Unseasonably warm and moist air spread northward from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of this system, resulting in weak to moderate instability developing across eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas. This instability, combined with very strong wind fields and wind shear, resulted in organized severe thunderstorms. The strongest storms produced large hail up to golfball size, damaging wind, a tornado, and flash flooding.
Began near Murphy (36.0991, -95.1771).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 874086. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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