Unrated tornado, Elmwood to Logan, Oklahoma, June 25, 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 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. Unratedthis tornado

   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

Unrated, preliminary

Date

June 25, 2026

Touchdown

4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)

Lifted

4:21 PM CDT (21:21 UTC)

On the ground

3 minutes

Path length

0.7 miles (1.1 km)

Path width

30 yards (27 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Beaver County

Touchdown point

36.695, -100.504

Lift-off point

36.693, -100.492

Surveyed by

NWS AMA

The office's name for it

Beaver Tornado #1 - 06/25/26

Survey last edited

July 6, 2026

Record number

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

This is the first tornado this storm produced as it intensified. The tornado condensed briefly multiple times along this path. The track was estimated using eye witness reports, pictures, and videos together with radar data. The tornado remained in open country and didn't encounter any damage indicators to allow for a rating or determine the exact path. Width was estimated based on video.

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

3 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS AMA, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 85 mph.

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

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.

This is the first tornado this storm produced as it intensified. The tornado condensed briefly multiple times along this path. The track was estimated using eye witness reports, pictures, and|videos together with radar data. The tornado remained in open country and didn't encounter any damage indicators to allow for a rating or determine the exact path. Width was estimated based on video.

Most of the tornado path was estimated by triangulating the location using chaser video/pictures and utilizing radar data. Toward the end of the life cycle of the tornado, after becoming rain wrapped and weakening, the tornado did encounter some damage indicators. Damage included large tree limbs which were snapped and one uprooted tree, all of which were around an old dilapidated homestead. Adjacent power lines were not damaged and this also provided clues to the intensity toward the end of the life-cycle. Radar imagery and video suggests the tornado was potentially stronger earlier in the track while in open grasslands. Maximum width was also estimated using photos and video. The maximum estimated wind speeds were 85mph.

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.

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

7 minutes of warning. NWS AMA issued a tornado warning for this county at 21:11 UTC, 7 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 22:00 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 20:03 UTC and running to 02:50 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, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 20:02 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), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 21:15 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

6 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.