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EF0 tornado in Coal County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 22, 2020 · Coal County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
30 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

Two independent storm chasers provided video of a tornado that was observed southwest of Lehigh from a storm that followed behind the storm that had produced the tornado near Bromide and Wapanucka. No damage is known to have occurred and the location of the tornado is estimated based on these videos and radar data.

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 Olney (34.4200, -96.3000).

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 Carter CountyEF0 Marshall CountyEFU Marshall County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 890718. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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