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EF0 tornado in Choctaw County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 31, 2008 · Choctaw County, Oklahoma

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

75 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 tornado was photographed near Hugo Lake. No damage is known to have occurred with this tornado.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms occurred across eastern Oklahoma on the 31st.

Began near Sawyer (34.0916, -95.4565).

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 Washington County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 88570. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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