Tornado, Pittsburg
- When
- August 1, 3:05 PM CST to 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Pittsburg County, 5 mi SE of Scipio
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.000, -95.900
Tornado in Oklahoma, August 1, 1996
A developing thunderstorm produced a landspout-type tornado 5 miles southeast of Scipio. The tornado touched down at 1505CST and remained on the ground until lifting at 1515CST.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
A developing thunderstorm produced a landspout-type tornado 5 miles southeast of Scipio. The tornado touched down at 1505CST and remained on the ground until lifting at 1515CST. The tornado moved very little and caused F0 damage to trees.
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:03 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Drought in Texas, August 1 to 22, 1996
- Drought in Texas, August 1 to 31, 1996
- Drought in New Mexico, August 1 to 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 1, 1996
- Drought in Texas, August 1 to 31, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, August 1, 1996
- Drought in Ohio, August 1 to 31, 1996
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 1, 1996
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, August 1, 1996
- Flood in Arizona, August 1, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, August 1, 1996
- Drought in Pennsylvania, August 1 to 31, 1996
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 1996Warnings in Oklahoma, August 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5584108.