Event narrative (NOAA)
This tornado began on the west side of Beggs, directly impacting the Beggs Public Schools campus. The High School and Middle School roof sustained significant damage, and the bus barn also suffered heavy damage to the roof and overhead doors. As it moved northeast, it crossed 15th Street, uprooting and snapping trees. After crossing Happy Camp Road, it destroyed outbuildings and began a brief jog northward, paralleling North 180 Road. This strongest and widest phase of the tornado occurred as it moved east along Grimes Road. One single-wide manufactured home was completely destroyed and several other single-family residences were heavily damaged with the loss of roofs and windows. Two fatalities and two injuries occurred at one homestead, where a double-wide manufactured home was completel
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.