EF1 tornado in Creek County, Oklahoma

The tornado developed approximately four miles northwest of Bristow, west of South 401st West Avenue and north of West 221st Street South. Moving northeast, it crossed South 401st West Avenue, where it destroyed a single-wide mobile home and an outbuilding. As the tornado continued northeast across Highway 16, it uprooted trees and snapped large limbs. At the intersection of Highway 48 and West 181st Street South, the tornado impacted an industrial site, collapsing overhead doors and removing roof sections from two metal buildings. The tornado maintained a northeast track, breaking additional large tree limbs along South 337th West Avenue, before dissipating north of Highway 66. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 100 to 110 mph.

Severe thunderstorms developed into eastern Oklahoma during the late afternoon of the 6th, ahead of a surface dry line, and moved across the area through the evening hours. The atmosphere had become strongly unstable across eastern Oklahoma during the afternoon east of the dry line. This instability, combined with very strong low-level and deep-layer wind shear across the region, resulted in the evolution of several long-lived supercell thunderstorms. These supercells produced eleven tornadoes, a couple of which were strong and damaging, large hail up to quarter size, damaging wind gusts, and localized flash flooding.