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EF0 tornado in Texas County, Missouri

Tornado March 15, 2026 · Texas County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

4.7 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$65K

Damage as recorded

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

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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 EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 EF-0 tornado briefly touched down approximately 4 miles north of Hartshorn in Texas County. Numerous large trees were uprooted, and a few smaller trees were snapped.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms moved across southern Missouri during the afternoon and evening of March 15th. Several tornadoes occurred within this line of storms.

Began near Hartshorn (37.3106, -91.7006).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Texas County EF0 Howell County EF0 Texas County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1316971. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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