Measurements of the 13C and D kinetic isotope effects (KIE) in methane, 13CKIE=k(12CH4)/k(13CH4) and DKIE=k(12CH4)/k(12CH3D), in the reactions of these atmospherically important methane isotopomers with O(1D) and OH have been undertaken using mass spectrometry and tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy to determine isotopic composition. For the carbon kinetic isotope effect in the reaction with the OH radical, 13CKIEOH=1.0039 (¿0.0004, 2&sgr;) was determined at 296 K, which is significantly smaller than the presently accepted value of 1.0054 (¿0.0009, 2&sgr;). For DKIEOH we found 1.294 (¿0.018, 2&sgr;) at 296 K, consistent with earlier observations. The carbon kinetic isotope effect in the reaction with O(1D), 13CKIEO(1D), was determined to be 1.013, whereas the deuterium kinetic isotope effect is given by DKIEO(1D)=1.06. Both values are approximately independent of temperature between 223 and 295 K. The room temperature fractionation effect 1000(KIE-1) in the reaction of O(1D) with 12CH4 versus 13CH4 is thus ≈13?, which is an order of magnitude greater than the previous value of 1?. In combination with recent results from our laboratory on C13CKIE and DKIE for the reaction of CH4 with Cl, these new measurements were used to simulate the effective kinetic isotope effect for the stratosphere with a two-dimensional, time dependent chemical transport model. The model results show reasonable agreement with field observations of the 13CH4/12CH4 ratio in the lowermost stratosphere, and also reproduce the observed CH3D/CH4 ratio. ¿ 2001 American Geophysical Union