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EF1 tornado in Texas County, Missouri

Tornado March 14, 2025 · Texas County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

22.3 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$320K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Laclede County → Texas County → Pulaski County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

An EF1 tornado with peak winds around 90 mph continued from Wright County into far northwestern Texas County north of Plato. In Texas County, the tornado uprooted numerous tree. The tornado then tracked northeast into Pulaski County.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms occurred during the late afternoon and evening hours of March 14th. Seven tornadoes occurred east of Springfield including an EF-3 tornado in Bakersfield, Missouri. Large hail to the golfballs and damaging winds also occurred with these storms.

Began near Old Evening Shade (37.5660, -92.2500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

6 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Ozark County 3 dead EF3 Oregon County EF3 Oregon County EF2 Phelps County EF1 Webster County EF1 Phelps County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1237760. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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