Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma · 1965

F0 tornado, Jackson County, Oklahoma, May 9, 1965

Name: F0 tornado, Jackson County, Oklahoma, May 9, 1965
Start: 1965-05-09T19:30:00.000Z
Location: Jackson County, Oklahoma

This F0 tornado ran 0.1 miles across Jackson County on May 9, 1965, touching down at 2:30 PM GMT-5 and reaching 10 yards wide. It killed nobody, and did $50 to $500 of property damage.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: F0
Date: May 9, 1965
Touchdown: 2:30 PM GMT-5 (19:30 UTC)
Path length: 0.1 miles (0.2 km)
Path width: 10 yards (9 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $50 to $500
County: Jackson County
Touchdown point: 34.650, -99.550
Record number: 292

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The other tornadoes of May 9, 1965

4 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 9	3:00 PM GMT-5	F2	Hill, TX	0.1	17		$5,000 to $50,000
May 9	4:15 PM GMT-5	F2	Pottawatomie, OK	0.1	100	3	$5,000 to $50,000
May 9	5:00 PM GMT-5	F2	Smith, TX	0.3	33		$5,000 to $50,000
May 9	9:00 PM GMT-5	F2	Van Zandt, TX	2.5	10		$5,000 to $50,000

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.