Storm reports for April 26, 2016

On the night of April 26, 2016, a tornado with EF0 to EF1 damage moved through Howe, just south of Sherman in Grayson County, Texas, at about 9:00 p.m. CST.¹ It damaged about 20 homes with widespread roof, fence and vehicle damage, injured five people, and is listed with $450,000 in damage in NOAA's Storm Events Database.¹ At 8:22 p.m., a brief EF0 tornado on the southeast side of Whitesboro damaged four homes and two businesses.² In Tulsa County, Oklahoma, EF1 tornadoes at 9:18 and 9:26 p.m. damaged homes west of the Arkansas River and industrial buildings and home roofs near Bixby.^3,4 At 10:11 p.m., an EF1 tornado damaged the roofs of numerous homes and businesses in Checotah.⁵

In southeast Kansas, winds estimated at 70 knots (81 mph) caused significant damage in residential and business areas of Coffeyville around 10:00 p.m., with a rough estimate of $500,000 in damage listed.⁶ At 10:51 p.m., winds estimated at 100 mph in Girard destroyed a large metal building and damaged several others.⁷ At 4:35 p.m., winds estimated at 83 knots (96 mph) blew roofs off buildings and blew out windows on a building in Hamlin, Texas.⁸ An EF1 tornado in Evansville, Indiana, at 4:38 p.m. CST downed transmission poles and lines that damaged at least eight buildings.⁹ At 3:43 a.m. CST on April 27, an EF0 tornado in the Willow Creek area of Harris County, Texas, uprooted large trees onto homes, and one person died when a tree fell on a mobile home.¹⁰