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19:05Z EF0 KPUX CO Bent Las Animas Tornado occurred over open country and caused no damage.
19:08Z EF0 KPUX CO Bent Las Animas Tornado occurred over open country and caused no damage.
19:35Z EF0 KPUX CO Bent Hasty Tornado occurred over open country and caused no damage.
19:48Z EF0 KPUX CO Bent Hasty Tornado occurred over open country and caused no damage.
19:57Z EF0 KPUX CO Bent Mc Clave Tornado occurred over open country and caused no damage.
20:22Z EF0 KPUX CO Kiowa Eads Tornado occurred over open country and caused no damage.
20:29Z EF1 KPUX CO Kiowa Eads Tornado occurred over open country, but totally destroyed a small storage barn 10.3 miles southwest of Eads. Debris from the barn was carried as far as 1500 feet to the north-northeast.
20:36Z EF0 KPUX CO Kiowa Eads Tornado occurred over open country and caused no damage.
20:45Z EF0 KPUX CO Kiowa Eads Tornado occurred over open country and caused no damage.
20:55Z EF0 KPUX CO Kiowa Eads Tornado occurred over open country and caused no damage.
20:56Z EF0 KPUX CO Kiowa Eads Tornado occurred over open country and caused no damage.
21:00Z EF0 KGLD CO Kiowa Eads Tornado occurred over open country with no damage.
21:12Z EF0 KPUX CO Kiowa Eads Tornado occurred over open country and caused no damage.
21:28Z EF0 KFTG CO Elbert Lowland A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
21:38Z EF0 KFTG CO Adams Strasburg A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
21:48Z EF1 KDDC KS Kearny Lakin This tornado was a mile wide at it's maximum size as witnessed by storm chasers and storm spotters. It did minimal damage to pivot sprinklers and barns as this was a very sparsely populated area.
21:59Z EF0 KAMA TX Armstrong Goodnight The tornado touched down five miles northeast of Goodnight in Armstrong County at 1559 CST and lifted at 1602 CST approximately seven miles northeast of Goodnight. The tornado was on the ground for one to two miles with a maximum path width of fifty yards. No damage or injuries were reported.
22:04Z EF0 KDDC KS Kearny Lakin White Arpt Storm chasers and spotters indicated this tornado became 1/4 of a mile wide. But it occurred in a very sparsely populated and vegetated area. Therefore there was no damage.
22:10Z EF0 KAMA TX Donley Jericho The tornado touched down four miles southeast of Groom in Donley County at 1610 CST and lifted at 1626 CST two miles east southeast of Jericho. The tornado was on the ground for about eight miles with a maximum path width of one hundred yards. No damage or injuries were reported.
22:20Z EF1 KAMA TX Armstrong Goodnight The tornado touched down three miles south of Goodnight in Armstrong County at 1620 CST and then lifted at 1643 CST eight miles northeast of Goodnight. The tornado was on the ground for approximately eleven miles with a maximum path width of one hundred yards. Two power poles were reported broken just southwest of Goodnight along with considerable damage to barbed wire fencing.
22:24Z EF0 KGLD CO Cheyenne Kit Carson The tornado lasted about 4 minutes before roping out. No known damage.
22:32Z EF0 KDDC KS Kearny Lake Mc Kinney Spotters indicated a small tornado that did not impact anything to damage.
22:38Z EF0 KAMA TX Gray Alanreed The tornado touched down one mile east of Lake McClellan in Gray County at 1638 CST and then lifted at 1640 CST. The tornado was on the ground for one half mile with a maximum path width of twenty-five yards. No damage or injuries were reported.
22:40Z EF0 KGLD CO Cheyenne Kit Carson This tornado developed southwest of Kit Carson and dissipated just west of town. No known damage.
22:51Z EF0 KDDC OK Beaver Gray The tornado touched down about eight miles south of Bryans Corner in Beaver County at 1651 CST and lifted at 1652 CST. The tornado remained over open country and was on the ground with a path length of approximately one quarter of a mile and a path width of about twenty-five yards. No damage or injuries were reported.
23:07Z EF0 KAMA TX Donley Jericho The tornado touched down eight miles east southeast of Groom in Donley County at 1707 CST and then lifted at 1709 CST. The tornado was on the ground for one half mile with a maximum path width of twenty-five yards. No damage or injuries were reported.
23:10Z EF1 KDDC KS Finney Tennis This tornado witnessed by storm chasers and storm spotters grew to about 1/2 mile wide but due to a sparsely populated and vegetated area there was only minor damage.
23:12Z EF0 KGLD CO Cheyenne Firstview The storm chaser reported this tornado became rain-wrapped. Tornado remained over open, rural portions of the county with no known damage.
23:17Z EF0 KDDC KS Finney Friend This was a brief satellite tornado around the bigger 1/2 mile tornado. It did not cause any damage.
23:27Z EF0 KDDC KS Scott Shallow Water This tornado quickly became a rain wrapped wedge but again there was very little for it to damage in the sparsely populated area.
23:30Z EF0 KAMA TX Gray Alanreed The tornado had a large...broad and intense rotation that produced multiple brief tornado touchdowns. The tornado began one mile north of Lake McClellan in Gray County at 1730 CST and then lifted at 1752 CST approximately five miles north northwest of McLean. The tornado was on the ground for about nine miles with a maximum circulation width of one quarter mile. No damage or injuries were reported.
23:39Z EF0 KGLD KS Kearny Lakin White Arpt This stovepipe tornado traveled across a sparsely populated and vegetated area. Therefore, it did no damage.
23:40Z EF0 KAMA TX Gray Lefors The tornado touched down eleven miles east northeast of Lefors in Gray County at 1740 CST and then lifted at 1750 CST seven miles west southwest of Mobeetie. The tornado was on the ground for approximately five miles with a maximum width of one hundred yards. No damage or injuries were reported.
23:52Z EF0 KGLD CO Cheyenne Firstview The spotter reported the tornado developed on the north side of Road DD and Road 34 and then moved northeast. Tornado remained over open, rural portions of the county with no known damage.
00:05Z EF0 KGLD CO Cheyenne Firstview The tornado remained over open, rural portions of the county with no known damage.
00:06Z EF1 KDDC KS Scott Shallow Water This wedge tornado was witnessed by storm chasers and spotters and damaged several barns, sheds and 2 pivot irrigation sprinklers.
00:20Z EF2 KLBB TX Motley Northfield Multiple storm chasers observed a large and rain-wrapped tornado that moved east-northeastward across the Motley and Cottle County line south-southeast of Northfield and southwest of Cee Vee during the 18:00 CST hour on the 22nd. ||Doppler radar, along with post-storm ground and aerial surveys, suggest that the tornado developed at approximately 18:20 CST 9 miles south-southwest of Northfield, just east of Farm to Market Road 94. Storm chasers first obtained a visual confirmation of the tornado at 18:37 CST as it partially emerged from obscuring rain curtains. Photographs show a very large wedge-shaped tornado, with only the southern portion of the vortex visible through the wrapping precipitation. ||The tornado's track across northeastern Motley County remained over uninhabited ranch land. A National Weather Service cooperative observer, however, reported a loud roar as the tornado passed south of her home south of Northfield. Surveys of adjacent ranch land, conducted by private land owners as well as National Weather Service and Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet meteorologists, revealed that the tornado destroyed four windmills, severely damaged mesquite trees, and snapped at least a half dozen wooden utility poles. The damage path was measured to be three-quarters of a mile wide. ||The tornado again became totally obscured by rain and hail within the parent high precipitation supercell storm before it crossed the Motley and Cottle County line approximately 8.25 miles south-southeast of Northfield at 18:42 CST. It likely dissipated just a few minutes later at approximately 18:45 CST southwest of Cee Vee in northwestern Motley County.||The total path length of the tornado across portions of Motley and Cottle Counties was approximately 9 miles, with a 25-minute duration. Enhanced-Fujita Scale damage indicators for both free-standing metal towers and metal electrical transmission line poles were considered to gauge expected wind speeds for the destroyed windmills. The lower bounds for degrees of damage 2 and 5 respectively were accepted, yielding estimated wind speeds between 110 and 115 mph. Winds of at least this magnitude are additionally supported by the expected value for snapped wooden utility poles, which were additionally observed along the damage path. Therefore an EF-2 rating was assigned for this tornado.
00:40Z EF0 KDDC KS Scott Manning This was a smaller tornado that did not strike anything to damage.
00:42Z EF2 KLBB TX Cottle Cee Vee Multiple storm chasers observed a large and rain-wrapped tornado that moved east-northeastward across the Motley and Cottle County line south-southeast of Northfield and southwest of Cee Vee during the 18:00 CST hour on the 22nd. ||Doppler radar, along with post-storm ground and aerial surveys, suggest that the tornado developed at approximately 18:20 CST south-southwest of Northfield in Motley County. Storm chasers first obtained a visual confirmation of the tornado at 18:37 CST as it partially emerged from obscuring rain curtains, while still in rural areas of northeastern Motley County. Photographs from that time show a very large wedge-shaped tornado. ||The tornado's maximum intensity, per post storm surveys by private land owners and meteorologists from the National Weather Service and Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet, occurred in northeastern Motley County where four windmills were destroyed, mesquite trees were severely damaged, and where a number of wooden utility poles were snapped. The damage path was measured to be three-quarters of a mile wide near the Motley and Cottle County line. ||The tornado again became totally obscured by rain and hail within the parent high precipitation supercell storm before it crossed the Motley and Cottle County line approximately 4.8 miles west-southwest of Cee Vee at 18:42 CST. Doppler radar velocity data shows subtle evidence that a mesocyclone occlusion may have occurred, and that the tornado likely dissipated just a few minutes later at approximately 18:45 CST 3.5 miles southwest of Cee Vee. A second tornado, however, quickly developed in a cyclic fashion just southeast of the initial tornado as a new mesocyclone became dominant.||The total path length of the tornado across portions of Motley and Cottle Counties was approximately 9 miles, with a 25-minute duration. Enhanced-Fujita Scale damage indicators for both free-standing metal towers and metal electrical transmission line poles were considered to gauge expected wind speeds for the destroyed windmills observed in northeastern Motley County. The lower bounds for degrees of damage 2 and 5 respectively were accepted, yielding estimated wind speeds between 110 and 115 mph. Winds of at least this magnitude are additionally supported by the expected value for snapped wooden utility poles, which were additionally observed along the damage path. Therefore an EF-2 rating was assigned for this tornado.
00:46Z EF3 KLBB TX Cottle Cee Vee A large and rain wrapped tornado tracked from southwest of Cee Vee to just west of U.S. Highway 62/83 east-northeast of Cee Vee between 18:46 and 19:20 CST. A storm spotter observed the tornado as it passed southeast of Cee Vee at approximately 19:05 CST, and described it visually as a large wedge-shaped vortex. A post-storm ground and aerial survey conducted by local emergency management officials and National Weather Service meteorologists concluded that the tornado resulted in significant EF-3 damage.||A number light weight objects and structures, including well-houses, horse stables, utility poles, empty semi-truck trailers, and a partially filled petroleum tank were heavily damaged or destroyed along the initial portions of the tornado's track through ranchland southwest and south of Cee Vee. This includes minor roof damage to a permanent farm home near County Road 172. ||Significant damage first occurred at a farmstead 3 miles east-southeast of Cee Vee, south of Farm to Market Road 1440. At this site, upwards of twenty-percent of the roof was removed from a well-built permanent home. A large metal building was partially collapsed and a well-house was completely destroyed. A horse trailer was blown over and rolled. In addition, several large trees were uprooted.||The tornado continued to move northeastward and impacted a second farmstead four miles east of Cee Vee, just south of Farm to Market Road 1440. The tornado's maximum damage intensity was observed at this site, where a well-built stucco constructed permanant home, a cinderblock two-car garage, and several outbuildings were destroyed. The home's roof was totally removed, and three exterior walls collapsed. A portion of the home's roof and exterior walls were blown downwind and struck the two-car cinderblock garage broadside. This contributed to the complete destruction of that structure with only the frames of two exterior walls remaining. Two outbuildings and a horse stable were completely destroyed, with another unroofed. In addition, an entire stand of more than a dozen large trees were uprooted. A detailed survey by local officials of the site, revealed that the home was well-built, and that the exterior walls were secured to the slab foundation with bolts.||In collaboration with experts at Texas Tech University's Wind Engineering Department, the developers of the Enhanced-Fujita Scale, it was determined that estimated wind speeds at the site of the destroyed residence ranged between 130 and 150 mph. With an average expected wind speed of 140 mph, the tornado was assigned an EF-3 rating based on this damage.||The tornado continued northeastward across Farm to Market Road 1440. It caused light roof damage to a couple of light weight structures before dissipating just west of U.S. Highway 62/83 east-northeast of Cee Vee at approximately 19:20 CST.||Despite damaging three residences, no injuries were reported.
00:57Z EF0 KDDC KS Lane Healy This was a smaller tornado from the cyclic supercell that did not strike anything to damage.
02:05Z EF0 KFDR TX Cottle Swearingen Numerous storm chasers and Skywarn spotters reported witnessing an intermittent tornado near Swearingen shortly after 20:00 CST on the 22nd. Post-storm surveys by National Weather Service meteorologists did not reveal significant damage in the area, however, the number of eyewitness reports coupled with Doppler radar presentations of the parent supercell lend credibility to the presence of a tornado.
02:21Z EF0 KDDC KS Gove Gove Law enforcement reported a brief tornado. It remained over open fields with no known damage.

Storm reports are derived from "The Storm Events Database" (National Centers for Environmental Information) and/or "Past Storm Reports" (Storm Prediction Center).