Tornado, Osage
- When
- September 8, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County, 5 mi N of Fairfax
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.630, -96.700
Tornadoes in Oklahoma, September 8, 1997
2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- 2
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.
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:43 UTC.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Pawnee
- When
- September 8, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Pawnee County, 2 mi NW of Ralston
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.520, -96.750
An isolated severe thunderstorm developed in western Osage County during the afternoon of September 8th and moved south into Pawnee County. The storm produced 2 brief tornadoes in open country. The tornadoes touched down at 1545CST 5 miles north of Fairfax and at 1620CST 2 miles northwest of Ralston. No structural damage occurred with the tornadoes, and both tornadoes were rated F0 in intensity.
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
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, September 8, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, September 8, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, September 8, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, September 8, 1997
- Flash Flood in Utah, September 8, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, September 8, 1997
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, September 8, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, September 8, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, September 8, 1997
- Hail in South Dakota, September 8, 1997
More
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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: 5619522, 5619523.