EF2 tornado, Oak Hill, Oklahoma, March 10, 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 mphthis tornado

   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

EF2, preliminary

Date

March 10, 2026

Touchdown

12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)

Lifted

12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)

On the ground

7 minutes

Path length

2.5 miles (4.0 km)

Path width

240 yards (219 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

1

County

McCurtain County

Touchdown point

34.040, -94.853

Lift-off point

34.063, -94.822

Highest wind the damage implies

118 mph

Surveyed by

NWS SHV

The office's name for it

E of Golden, OK

Survey last edited

March 27, 2026

Record number

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

Around 12:00am CDT on March 11, a line of severe thunderstorms moved into McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Beginning around 12:30am CDT, the line of thunderstorms began to rotate, one of which quickly produced a tornado that began on Old Golden Highway, resulting in snapped trees and the loss of shingles to a local residence. The tornado then continued east, reaching Thomas Road near the intersection of Old Golden Highway where more trees were snapped and uprooted and a barn/shed experienced damage to the roof. The tornado then began to pick up in intensity as it moved across Oak Hill Road where numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. As the tornado then continued northeast towards Rhoden Road, it caused significant damage to a family residence, resulting in the collapse of most exterior walls and an injury to the occupant who had to be airlifted to the hospital. Trees were then uprooted and fell on this residence, causing additional damage. Next door to this home, significant damage was found to other structures as well as additional tree damage. Right before reaching Rhoden Road, another residence was damaged, where areas of the roof were uplifted, multiple trees were snapped and uprooted, and the neighboring barn experienced significant roof damage. The tornado then moved north/northeast of the road, pushing a small outbuilding off of its foundation and snapping and uprooting more trees. The tornado lifted as it crossed Highway 3, ending around 12:37am CDT.

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

19 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS SHV, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF2. The highest wind the damage implies is 118 mph.

• Damage indicates that wind from the tornado lifted the roof of this residence, causing the exterior walls to collapse (based on the location of the cinder blocks). Trees were then uprooted and fell on the damaged home. One occupant of the house was injured and had to be airlifted.

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

Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms extended from Southeast Oklahoma down across Central Texas late in the evening on March 10th, with the most organized threat area over Northeast Texas into Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas. Effective storm-relative helicity ahead of the prominent line of thunderstorms was quite favorable for low-level rotation, and instability was rather strong as well. The VAD wind profile from the Shreveport Doppler Radar indicated a very favorable hodograph for rotating storms with 0-1 km storm-relative helicity over 250 m2/s2. As a result, severe thunderstorms produced an isolated tornado and some damaging wind gusts in parts of McCurtain County just prior to midnight on March 10th.

A line of severe thunderstorms moved into McCurtain County, Oklahoma, late in the evening on March 10th. Circulations were embedded within this line of thunderstorms, with one of which producing an EF2 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 118 mph that began on Old Golden Highway, resulting in snapped trees and the loss of shingles to a local residence. The tornado then continued east, reaching Thomas Road near the intersection of Old Golden Highway where more trees were snapped and uprooted and a barn/shed experienced damage to the roof. The tornado then began to pick up in intensity as it moved across Oak Hill Road where numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. As the tornado then continued northeast towards Rhoden Road, it caused significant damage to a family residence, resulting in the collapse of most exterior walls and an injury to the occupant who had to be airlifted to the hospital. Trees were then uprooted and fell onto this residence, causing additional damage. Next door to this home, significant damage was found to other structures as well as additional tree damage. Just before reaching Rhoden Road, another residence was damaged, where areas of the roof were uplifted, multiple trees were snapped and uprooted, and the neighboring barn experienced significant roof damage. The tornado then moved north/northeast of the road, pushing a small outbuilding off of its foundation and snapping and uprooting more trees before lifting as it crossed Highway 3.

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Idabel (4O4), 16 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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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.