 The tornado maintained EF4 strength as it moved northwest of Noxapater, sweeping away a brick building and a brick home, obliterating a mobile home, and debarking numerous trees.The tornado then weakened slightly, snapping numerous trees and power poles and destroying chicken houses at EF3 intensity.After that, the tornado weakened further, but maintained EF2 intensity as it made a dramatic turn to the north, roughly following and eventually crossing Highway 15.