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EF1 tornado in Osage County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 31, 2008 · Osage County, Oklahoma

EF1

Rating

5.5 mi

Path length

250 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado severely damaged the roof of a home west of the Hominy Airport and produced minor damage to the roofs of several other homes. Trees were snapped and barns were damaged or destroyed in the path of the tornado.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms occurred across eastern Oklahoma on the 31st.

Began near Hominy (36.4467, -96.4138).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Ottawa County EF0 Washington County EF0 Choctaw County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 88566. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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