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EF0 tornado in Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Tornado January 8, 2026 · Cleveland County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
1.8 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$5K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 likely developed over the northern arm of Lake Thunderbird, then moved northeast damaging trees after moving onshore. A few branches were snapped off of trees just northeast of 156th Avenue NE and Tecumseh Road.

The wider storm

A fast-moving quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) swept across portions of central, southern and eastern Oklahoma on the morning of the 8th. This convective system was tied to the passage of a compact upper wave across the region, resulting in very strong wind fields within a weakly unstable boundary layer. In addition to sporadic pockets of thunderstorm wind damage, and generally sub-severe hail, a few tornadoes occurred in a corridor from near Purcell, OK to Shawnee, OK.

Began near Lake Thunderbird Dam (35.2410, -97.2290).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 McClain CountyEF1 Cleveland CountyEF1 Pottawatomie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1311611. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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