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EF1 tornado in Ottawa County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 31, 2008 · Ottawa County, Oklahoma

EF1

Rating

5.4 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$125K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Ottawa County → Newton County, Missouri; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 roofs of several homes, broke glass windows out of several homes, damaged or destroyed several barns, snapped and uprooted a number of trees, and damaged power poles. This tornado moved into Newton County, Missouri south of Seneca.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms occurred across eastern Oklahoma on the 31st.

Began near Wyandotte (36.8000, -94.6686).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Osage County EF0 Washington County EF0 Choctaw County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 88569. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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