EF1 tornado in Murray County, Oklahoma
Tornado April 22, 2020 · Murray County, Oklahoma
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Carter County → Murray County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
Damage from a large tornado was observed in high-resolution satellite imagery from a tornado that occurred in areas of the southern Arbuckle Mountains inaccessible to ground survey teams. The large tornado developed in northern Carter County northeast of Springer then moved into Murray County south-southwest of Dougherty where tree damage was observed in satellite imagery. The damage path in Murray County was less than one-quarter of a mile before the tornado dissipated.
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 Dougherty (34.3760, -97.0620).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
9 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 890646. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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