Winter Weather... - Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department

Deadly tornado touches down in Oklahoma

Large, powerful Oklahoma tornado! This was the strongest of a regional outbreak of tornadoes across Southern Oklahoma with this twister coming in at an EF-4. A second tornado from this storm a bit later might’ve been even stronger, but it took a path across mostly open terrain. One of the chief weaknesses of the Enhanced Fujita scale is that it is a damage scale — so it needs tornadoes to actually hit something when they are at their strongest to be truly accurate. But it is also the best possib

TORNADO: Okemah, Oklahoma