EF1 tornado, Coleman to Lane, Oklahoma, April 28, 2026

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, as surveyed

EF1, preliminary

Date

April 28, 2026

Touchdown

3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)

Lifted

3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)

On the ground

14 minutes

Path length

7.8 miles (12.6 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Counties

Johnston and Atoka counties

Touchdown point

34.295, -96.430

Lift-off point

34.301, -96.297

Highest wind the damage implies

95 mph

Surveyed by

NWS OUN

The office's name for it

Coleman-Butterfield Crossing

Survey last edited

June 10, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

A tornado began near Oklahoma State Highway 48 north of Coleman where a barn lost part of its metal roof and trees were snapped. Additional tree and outbuilding damage occurred eastward along West Butterfield Crossing. The tornado snapped a few trees as it crossed South Park Lane, south of West Boggy Depot Road. The tornado then began to weaken and move to the northeast, lifting near the intersection of West Boggy Depot Road and South Park Lane.

Written by NWS OUN in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

The final day of a prolonged stretch of severe weather potential (beginning on the 23rd) yielded another round of significant hail, winds and tornadoes across southern Oklahoma into portions of north Texas. A pair of intense supercells (one southeast of Wichita Falls, Texas and another from near Sulphur, Oklahoma to Atoka, Oklahoma) produced large to very large hail, damaging wind gusts and several tornadoes. This included a long-track significant (EF-2) tornado that impacted portions of southern Atoka County with the easternmost supercell.

This tornado developed near Blue Spring Road just west of State Highway 48 north of Coleman where a barn lost part of its metal roof and trees were snapped. The tornado moved east-southeast damaging trees and another outbuilding at the county line as it crossed into Atoka County.

This tornado moved into Atoka County from Johnston County and continued moving east-southeast and then east. Tree and outbuilding damage occurred along Butterfield Crossing Road between Featherstone Road and Overland Trail. Crossing Overland Trail, the tornado turned east-northeast and snapped a few more trees near and west of Park Lane. The tornado dissipated near Boggy Depot Road east of Park Lane.

A tornado began near South Bluebird Lane, where a few homes sustained minor roof damage and a large tank was knocked over and rolled. The tornado snapped several trees as it crossed South Park Lane, just north of the West Voca Road intersection. The tornado then paralleled West Voca Road where tree and minor roof damage was noted eastward towards U.S. Highway 69. The tornado then crossed U.S. Highway 69 and Old U.S. Highway 69 just north of Caney, where trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado continued to the southeast, damaging trees and outbuildings along east Allison Road. The most significant damage occurred near the intersection of Allison Road and Forest Hill Road, where a mobile home was destroyed and other homes received varying degrees of roof damage. The tornado also bent several large metal high-tension power poles east of this intersection along Allison Road. Further to the east, a house along South Sawmill Road lost a significant portion of its roof. Another concentrated area of damage was noted near the East Cottonwood Road and South Iron Stob Road intersection, where several homes, barns and at least one camper were significantly damaged. Two additional residences along East Cottonwood Road experienced light damage as the tornado began to dissipate, just west of Oklahoma State Highway 109A. ||In addition to the tornado, very strong straight-line winds just south of the tornado path caused significant damage in and near Caney. In addition to widespread damage to trees, roofs and outbuildings, an anchored 20-ft storage unit was completely destroyed on the southwest side of town. Maximum wind speeds associated with this wind damage are estimated to be as high as 100-105 mph, similar to portions of the tornado track.

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

25 minutes of warning. NWS OUN issued a tornado warning for this county at 20:01 UTC, 25 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 20:38 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 18:22 UTC and running to 21:31 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 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 20:00 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.

Durant (DUA), 40 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Norman radar (KTLX), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 20:27 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 2026 tornado in OklahomaEvery tornado in Oklahoma since 1950Warnings in force in Oklahoma nowThe forecast where you are

15 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.