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EF1 tornado in Adair County, Oklahoma

Tornado April 14, 2026 · Adair County, Oklahoma

EF1

Rating

7.5 mi

Whole path

700 yd

Path width

$75K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through 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 700 yards (0.40 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 the first segment of a two-segment tornado. The tornado developed just west of Piney Road, south of the 782 Road, where trees were uprooted. The tornado moved northeast uprooting trees along Piney Road and the 4765 Road, before crossing into Washington County, AR. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 90 to 100 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 Baron (35.8760, -94.5600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Creek County EF1 Muskogee County EF1 Cherokee County EF1 Cherokee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1325210. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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