Tornado in Beaver County, Oklahoma

This next tornado occurred as the previous tornadoes occluded and another one formed on the southern end of the initial mesocyclone. The estimated path and time are based on eye witness reports and radar imagery. The tornado remained in open country where little to no damage indicators exist and no damage was reported.

High pressure over New Mexico helped trigger new storms off the higher terrain. These storms then moved to the south and east into the combined Panhandles. With favorable instability and wind shear, these storms became strong to severe with the main hazards being large hail and damaging winds. There were some supercells that did produce tornadoes across portions of the eastern combined Panhandles as well as high end wind damage from straight line winds. Given sufficient moisture in place, slow moving storms or storms that moved over the same locations, a few communities in the eastern combined Panhandles did receive heavy rainfall that resulted in flash flooding.