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EF1 tornado in Garvin County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 22, 2020 · Garvin County, Oklahoma

EF1
Rating
2.2 mi
Path length
600 yd
Path width
$200K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 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 moved east-southeast from west of County Road 3210 about a mile and a half north of State Highway 29 to just east of Indian Meridian Road. Seven homes, a few outbuildings, trees and power poles were damaged.

The wider storm

A dryline and upper level wave combined with strong shear to produce multiple tornadic supercells across southern Oklahoma on the 22nd.

Began near Pauls Valley (34.6720, -97.2830).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Marshall County 2 deadEF2 Carter CountyEF1 Johnston CountyEF1 Bryan CountyEF1 Bryan CountyEF0 Carter CountyEF0 Marshall CountyEF0 Coal CountyEFU Marshall County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 890616. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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