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EF0 tornado in Carter County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 22, 2020 · Carter County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
20 yd
Path width
$2K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 brief tornado was observed by a storm chaser at close range. Debris observed by the chaser is believed to have been from a damaged outbuilding. This was a brief first tornado that occurred about a minute before a much larger tornado developed northeast of Springer.

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 Springer (34.3310, -97.1410).

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 Garvin CountyEF1 Johnston CountyEF1 Bryan CountyEF1 Bryan CountyEF0 Marshall CountyEF0 Coal CountyEFU Marshall County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 890622. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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