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EF1 tornado in Cherokee County, Oklahoma

Tornado June 7, 2025 · Cherokee County, Oklahoma

EF1

Rating

9.3 mi

Path length

2,000 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 2,000 yards (1.14 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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

This tornado developed near Highway 10, west of the Cherokee Nation Child Development Center, and traveled east-southeast for approximately 9 miles before dissipating just east of where the Illinois River widens into Tenkiller Lake. The tornado produced minor damage to some homes, uprooted trees, and snapped large tree limbs. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 95 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed during the evening of the 6th over southeast Colorado, southwest Kansas, and the western Oklahoma Panhandle. The storms moved southeast through the early morning hours of the 7th, evolving into a well-organized squall line by the time they moved into eastern Oklahoma. The line of strong to severe thunderstorms produced a couple tornadoes and damaging wind across eastern Oklahoma.

Began near Metory (35.8482, -95.0227).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Pittsburg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1279665. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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