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EF0 tornado in Cherokee County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 14, 2026 · Cherokee County, Oklahoma

EF0
Rating
24.2 mi
Whole path
600 yd
Path width
$70K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Cherokee County → Adair County → Washington County, Arkansas; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 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 is the first segment of a three-segment tornado. The tornado developed south of Highway 51, southeast of Eldon, where numerous large tree limbs were snapped. It moved northeast into Adair County, south of the 754 Road. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 80 to 85 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed over central Oklahoma during the early evening of the 14th, ahead of a dry line and an approaching upper level disturbance. The thunderstorms moved eastward into eastern Oklahoma during the late evening as they organized into a squall line. The line of thunderstorms produced several tornadoes and damaging wind.

Another round of strong to severe thunderstorms developed across portions of eastern Oklahoma during the afternoon and evening of the 15th. The strongest thunderstorms produced large hail up to two inches in diameter and damaging wind.

Began near Eldon (35.9010, -94.8320).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Creek CountyEF1 Muskogee CountyEF1 Cherokee CountyEF1 Adair County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1325204. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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