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EF1 tornado in Texas County, Missouri

Tornado May 16, 2025 · Texas County, Missouri

EF1
Rating
2.4 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

Using remote sensing, an EF-1 tornado track with maximum wind speeds of 95 mph was identified in Texas County, east of Cabool and north of Grogan, using Sentinel data. Numerous trees were uprooted and damaged along a confined path starting just east of Highway Y, traveling between and parallel to Rocky Top and Grogan Roads, and ending halfway between Morgan Road and Highway 137. No structures were in the path, resulting in only tree damage found via satellite.

The wider storm

A cold front pushing through a highly sheared and unstable atmosphere led to supercells developing during the late morning and early afternoon along the frontal boundary generally along and east of Highway 65. As these supercells continued to push east-northeast, very large hail between golf balls and three inches in diameter was reported, as well as damaging wind gusts up to 68mph that caused tree and power line damage. An EF-1 tornado touched down in Texas County, causing widespread tree damage. Additional supercells developed in the evening behind the cold front over south-central Missouri, leading to quarter size hail in Howell County.

Began near Tyrone (37.1600, -91.9100).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1260786. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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