EF0 tornado, Elmwood, Oklahoma, June 22, 2014

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

EF0

Date

June 22, 2014

Touchdown

6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)

Lifted

6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.4 miles (0.7 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Beaver County

Touchdown point

36.515, -100.400

Lift-off point

36.510, -100.395

Record number

1406221731-01

13 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS AMA, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 90 mph.

• Roof off old barn thrown east.
• Old barn/outbuilding destroyed.
• Debris scattered in all four quadrants and east and south side of house with significant hail damage.
• Barn Roof debris due west in a field.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

A favorable northwest flow aloft pattern and abundant moisture resulted in a round of severe convection for the 22nd and into the early morning hours of the 23rd. A discrete supercell developed over the eastern Oklahoma Panhandle during the early afternoon hours of the 22nd. This supercell would go on to produce several brief tornadoes and hail up to the size of tennis balls while slowly moving southward across the far eastern Oklahoma Panhandle. The outflow from this tornadic supercell interacted with discrete storms developing along a southward moving cold front over western Kansas, and caused the storms to transition into a linear structure. This line would enter the central Oklahoma Panhandle around 8 PM CST before exiting by 10 PM CST.

A slow moving supercell thunderstorm moved southward across the eastern Oklahoma Panhandle during the evening hours of the 22nd. This supercell produced multiple brief tornadoes over the course of several hours. This tornado developed across eastern Beaver County roughly 12 miles west of Slapout (Beaver County). The tornado snapped nearly two dozen power poles and caused damage to a barn with the east wall and roof missing. It also damaged a center pivot irrigation system and caused additional roof and wall damage to a barn and house. The winds were estimated at 90 mph. After producing this tornado, the parent supercell continued moving southward across the eastern Oklahoma Panhandle.

A slow moving supercell thunderstorm moved southward across the eastern Oklahoma Panhandle during the evening hours of the 22nd. This supercell produced multiple brief tornadoes over the course of several hours. This tornado developed across eastern Beaver County near Elmwood (Beaver County). The tornado snapped the tops of trees and destroyed a metal garage completely. The winds were estimated at 75 mph. After producing this tornado, the parent supercell continued moving southward across the eastern Oklahoma Panhandle.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

20 minutes of warning. NWS AMA issued a tornado warning for this county at 23:11 UTC, 20 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 23:46 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 20:51 UTC and running to 02:54 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 19:50 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:29 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2014 tornado in OklahomaEvery tornado in Oklahoma since 1950Warnings in force in Oklahoma nowThe forecast where you are

6 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.