EF1 tornado, Calera, Oklahoma, November 4, 2022

1. EF065 to 85 mph

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

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   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

EF1

Date

November 4, 2022

Touchdown

1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)

Lifted

1:34 PM CDT (18:34 UTC)

On the ground

4 minutes

Path length

3.4 miles (5.5 km)

Path width

40 yards (37 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$75,000

County

Bryan County

Touchdown point

33.912, -96.458

Lift-off point

33.948, -96.425

Record number

2211041230-01

41 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS OUN, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 107 mph.

• Unanchored, unoccupied mobile home rolled and destroyed northeast.
• Unanchored, unoccupied mobile home rolled northeast.
• Photo taken towards the WSW or SW.
• Unanchored mobile homes thrown together.

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

A storm system brought numerous thunderstorms to south central and southeast Oklahoma on the 4th, bringing hail and also a tornado near Calera.

A tornado touched down southwest of Calera crossing US-69 and blowing a semi truck and trailer into the median. A number of unoccupied, unanchored mobile homes just north of US-69 were displaced and damaged including at least one that was rolled and destroyed. The tornado moved northeast, parallel to and just northwest of US-69, and moved into the west and north sides of Calera. A number of trees had damage or were snapped in Calera with at least two houses heavily damaged by falling trees. Other homes in town received shingle damage from the tornado. The tornado dissipated just northeast of the city limits of Calera before reaching Choctaw Road.

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

22 minutes of warning. NWS OUN issued a tornado warning for this county at 18:08 UTC, 22 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 19:00 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 18:02 UTC and running to 22:53 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 Enhanced Risk, with a 0.10 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 16:21 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 Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 171 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 18:30 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 2022 tornado in OklahomaEvery tornado in Oklahoma since 1950Warnings in force in Oklahoma nowThe forecast where you are

29 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.