Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma · 2019
EF0 tornado, Felt, Oklahoma, June 2, 2019
This EF0 tornado ran 0.0 miles across Cimarron County on June 2, 2019, touching down at 8:18 PM CDT and reaching 20 yards wide. It killed nobody.
The rating scale
Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.
EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 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.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 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
- EF0
- Date
- June 2, 2019
- Touchdown
- 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
- Path length
- 0.0 miles (0.0 km)
- Path width
- 20 yards (18 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- County
- Cimarron County
- Touchdown point
- 36.650, -102.760
- Lift-off point
- 36.650, -102.760
- Record number
- 1906021918-01
What the Weather Service recorded
An upper level disturbance generated a multi cell cluster of thunderstorms over parts of northeastern New Mexico. Favorable winds with low level moisture and instability in the central and western Oklahoma Panhandle allowed thunderstorms to maintain their strength as they moved east from New Mexico into the area. Large hail up to golf balls and even a landspout was reported in Cimarron County, OK. Some thunderstorms across the western OK Panhandle did back build over the same areas which resulted in a few reports of flooding across parts of Cimarron County.
A landspout with a tubular dust cloud lasted 2 minutes in open country causing no damage.
From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.
The warnings
No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.
| Issued (UTC) | Expired | Product | Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23:42 UTC | 00:45 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA |
| 00:45 UTC | 03:45 UTC | Flood Advisory | AMA |
| 01:15 UTC | 02:00 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA |
| 02:23 UTC | 04:05 UTC | Flood Advisory | AMA |
Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.
The forecast that day
The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 01:02 UTC.
SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.
The air that afternoon
The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), 00:00Z
1.3 hours before the tornado, 184 km from the path. June 3, 2019.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1847 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Surface CAPE
- 3356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
- 0-3 km lapse rate
- 6.4 K/km
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), 12:00Z
10.7 hours after it, 184 km from the path. June 3, 2019.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71991 J/kg
- Surface CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1420 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
- 0-3 km lapse rate
- 3.9 K/km
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 184 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 01:18 UTC.
Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track
Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.
What was reported nearby
Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Report | Where | County | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:18 UTC | HAIL 0.75 | Kenton | Cimarron, OK | |
| 00:50 UTC | FLOOD | Kenton | Cimarron, OK | MINOR FLOODING IN AND AROUND KENTON. |
| 01:18 UTC | TORNADO | 15 Wsw Boise City | Cimarron, OK | LANDSPOUT THAT LASTED 2 MINUTES WITH A TUBULAR DUST CLOUD. |
| 01:19 UTC | HAIL 1.75 | 10 W Boise City | Cimarron, OK | |
| 01:35 UTC | HAIL 1 | 10 W Boise City | Cimarron, OK | |
| 01:45 UTC | FLOOD | 11 Sw Boise City | Cimarron, OK | FLOOD WATERS HAS ENTERED A BARN, RAIN WAS STILL FALLING. |
| 02:30 UTC | FLOOD | 10 Se Boise City | Cimarron, OK | MINOR FLOODING IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF BOISE CITY. |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.
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The other tornadoes of June 2, 2019
4 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
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.