EFU Tornado — Muskogee, Oklahoma

2024-11-04 · near Webbers Falls Sheffi, Muskogee, Oklahoma

Event narrative

This brief tornado was recorded by a storm chaser. It remained over open country that was inaccessible by road, and no known damage occurred.

Wider weather episode

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed into and across eastern Oklahoma during the late morning through afternoon of the 4th, in an unseasonably moist and unstable air mass ahead of an approaching cold front. The atmosphere became very unstable ahead of the thunderstorms. The deep-layer and low-level wind shear strengthened during the afternoon, in response to a strong storm system translating into the Southern Plains from the Southern Rockies. The combination of very unstable air and very strong wind shear resulted in the development of some supercell thunderstorms, which produced multiple tornadoes across northeast and east central Oklahoma, including a long-track significant tornado that affected Cherokee and Adair Counties before moving into Arkansas. Damaging wind gusts also occurred. Locally heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1219386. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.