The May 9, 2016 tornado
EF4Garvin County, Oklahoma
An EF4 tornado on a 8.9-mile path that killed 1 and injured 0. It was one of 28 tornadoes recorded in the U.S. that day, 4 of them rated F3/EF3 or stronger.
Watch how it happenedEF4 tornado · May 9, 2016
How it happened
Follow the tornado’s path, minute by minute.
The tornado
- Rating
- EF4
- Enhanced Fujita scale
- Path length
- 8.9 mi
- Width up to 400 yards
- Killed
- 1
- Along the whole path
- Injured
- 0
- Along the whole path
- Date and time
- Monday, May 9, 2016
- 3:06 PM CST
The National Weather Service account
Written by the local Weather Service office after its damage survey.
A tornado developed 1.25 miles south of the community of Katie, OK, or about 3.4 miles north of Hennepin. The tornado was observed to be very dynamic as it moved east-northeast and east. Initially damage was confined to trees until the tornado crossed county road 1690 where a home was destroyed where only interior walls remained standing. To the east of this house, two mobile homes were damaged on the southern periphery of the tornado path. The tornado moved east-northeast damaging another mobile home, then east removing the roof from a home on Indian Meridian Road.||The tornado varied in movement between northeast and southeast as it approached and crossed county road 1680. A home was destroyed near county road 1680 and Indian Meridian Road where an EF4 rating was applied (DI 2, DOD 9). Further east, a fatality occurred when the tornado destroyed a modular home. After destroying another home, the tornado moved northeast and dissipated near Interstate 35.
The storm system that day
With the help of an upper low, storms fired along the dryline in central Oklahoma on the 9th, with some of them becoming severe.
NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database.
Counties on its path
Storm Prediction Center severe weather database. Path drawn as a straight line from the recorded start to end point.