Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma · 1984

F0 tornado, Johnston County, Oklahoma, May 2, 1984

Name: F0 tornado, Johnston County, Oklahoma, May 2, 1984
Start: 1984-05-02T23:34:00.000Z
Location: Johnston County, Oklahoma

This F0 tornado ran 0.1 miles across Johnston County on May 2, 1984, touching down at 6:34 PM CDT and reaching 10 yards wide. It killed nobody.

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 2, 1984
Touchdown: 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Path length: 0.1 miles (0.2 km)
Path width: 10 yards (9 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Johnston County
Touchdown point: 34.480, -96.620
Record number: 294

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The other tornadoes of May 2, 1984

23 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 2	2:33 PM CDT	F0	Jefferson, AL	1.0	80		$5,000 to $50,000
May 2	3:55 PM CDT	F1	McCurtain, OK	8.0	200		$50,000 to $500,000
May 2	4:30 PM CDT	F0	Anderson, TX	0.1	10
May 2	4:30 PM CDT	F0	Wood, TX	0.1	10
May 2	4:40 PM CDT	F0	Wood, TX	0.1	10
May 2	4:54 PM CDT	F2	Garvin, OK	2.5	77		$50,000 to $500,000
May 2	5:03 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln, AR	0.1	30
May 2	5:10 PM CDT	F0	Bowie, TX	0.1	10
May 2	5:25 PM CDT	F2	Garvin, OK	4.5	200		$50,000 to $500,000
May 2	5:33 PM CDT	F0	Pontotoc, OK	0.1	10
May 2	5:35 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln, AR	0.1	20
May 2	5:50 PM CDT	F0	Bowie, TX	0.1	10
May 2	7:20 PM CDT	F0	Panola, TX	0.1	10
May 2	7:22 PM CDT	F1	Shelby, TX	6.0	100
May 2	7:40 PM CDT	F3	De Soto Parish, LA	61.0	250	9	$5 million to $50 million
May 2	8:40 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln, AR	0.1	10
May 2	8:55 PM CDT	F1	Coahoma, MS	7.0	100	13	$500,000 to $5 million
May 2	9:15 PM CDT	F1	Coahoma, MS	0.5	77		$50,000 to $500,000
May 2	9:30 PM CDT	F2	Lincoln Parish, LA	15.0	150		$5,000 to $50,000
May 2	11:20 PM CDT	F2	West Carroll Parish, LA	7.0	150	4	$50,000 to $500,000
May 2	11:30 PM CDT	F0	Red River, TX	0.1	10
May 2	11:35 PM CDT	F0	Red River, TX	0.1	10
May 2	12:17 AM CDT	F0	Red River, TX	0.1	10

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.