I promised I'd follow-up as soon as more information was known about last week's tornadoes, so here goes.
A tornado that touched down at 2:54 p.m. Nov. 7 three miles south of Tipton received a preliminary classification of EF4 under the enhanced Fujita scale.
And of the six spotted last week, so far it's the only one with an intensity classification.
The reason for this, said Bruce Thoren, Norman National Weather Service meteorologist, is because tornado classifications are based on proof of wind speed and structural damage.
Which means, Thoren said, that you could have a violent tornado in the middle of nowhere and there would be no record of it being a violent tornado.
Here is the most updated information on the other five (they were all on Nov. 7):
3:15 p.m., 2 miles northwest of Manitou, which dissipated near U.S. 183 south of Snyder.
3:38 p.m., 3 miles east of Snyder.
3:50 p.m., 6 miles east-northeast of Mountain Park, developed southeast of Oklahoma 49 and Oklahoma 54 intersection, moving northeast to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.
4:45 p.m., 7 miles south-southeast of Carnegie, also spotted southwest of Fort Cobb, lasting a few minutes.
5 p.m., 3 miles northwest of Fort Cobb, a multiple-vortex tornado that moved north around Fort Cobb Lake, lasting about 10 to 15 minutes.
They also have a few images posted on their site, link
here.
As noted in the blog title, this is the first reported EF4 in November in state history, with records dating back to 1950. Here is a video someone posted on youtube:
--Althea Peterson
