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EF1 tornado in Shannon County, Missouri

Tornado March 15, 2026 · Shannon County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

4.7 mi

Whole path

250 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 250 yards (0.14 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 EF-1 tornado briefly touched down approximately 5 miles southwest of Akers in Shannon County. Strong winds caused the roof of a single wide home to be torn off as well as the windows to be blown in. Other damage included large trees uprooted and healthy trees 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 Akers (37.3227, -91.6278).

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 1316972. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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