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EF1 tornado in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma

Tornado January 8, 2026 · Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma

EF1
Rating
4.0 mi
Whole path
75 yd
Path width
$95K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Cleveland County → Pottawatomie County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 is a continuation of a tornado that developed in Cleveland County. After crossing Pottawatomie Road into Pottawatomie County, a number of large, dead trees were broken, a small outbuilding destroyed and a porch was damaged. Continuing northeast, an outbuilding was damaged along Fishmarket Road, and at least two homes received roof damage in the area between the Shawnee Twin Lakes. The tornado dissipated northeast of Homer Lane Road and Patterson Road between the lakes.

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 Pink (35.3210, -97.1420).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1311613. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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