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EF0 tornado in Washington County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 31, 2008 · Washington County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

100 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

A storm chaser for KOTV in Tulsa reported a tornado over open country. An NWS storm survey found no damage from the tornado.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms occurred across eastern Oklahoma on the 31st.

Began near Ramona (36.5245, -95.9366).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Osage County EF1 Ottawa County EF0 Choctaw County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 88567. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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