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EF1 tornado in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma

Tornado June 7, 2025 · Alfalfa County, Oklahoma

EF1
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A hay barn was destroyed near the intersection of County Roads E0210 and N2740.

The wider storm

A multi-modal episode of severe thunderstorms occurred from the late evening of the 6th through early morning of the 7th, primarily impacting areas along the north of Interstate 40. Initial severe weather was focused along a modifying warm front, lifting northward into portions of central/west-central Oklahoma. Thunderstorms in this regime produced reports of very large hail and a few severe-caliber wind gusts. Concurrently, a long-track and occasionally tornadic supercell was moving into portions of far western Oklahoma. While no tornadoes occurred across the WFO Norman Forecast Area, this thunderstorm produced large hail in Beckham County. By the early morning of the 7th, a mesoscale convective system (MCS) organized and became well-defined/mature as it swept eastward across northern Oklahoma. Widespread and locally intense thunderstorm wind damage/gusts, and two brief tornadoes, were noted across this area.

Began near Great Salt Plains Lake Dam (36.7090, -98.1260).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1276072. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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