EF1 tornado in Rogers County, Oklahoma

This tornado appears to have developed on the Claremore Airport property and moved northeast across Highway 20, ending about a half mile west of the Mayes County line south of the E 470 Road. The tornado damaged several homes near Highway 20. It also uprooted trees, snapped numerous large tree limbs, and blew down power poles. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.

A strong upper level disturbance translated from the Southern Rockies into the Southern Plains on the 16th. Very moist and unstable air was in place across the Southern Plains as this system approached. Severe thunderstorms developed over western Oklahoma and northwestern Texas during the afternoon and moved eastward into eastern Oklahoma in the late evening. By the time the storms reached eastern Oklahoma, a well-organized squall line had evolved but due to very strong low level wind shear, multiple tornadoes occurred across the area along with widespread damaging wind. Locally heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding in some areas through the early morning hours of the 17th.