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EF0 tornado in Morgan County, Missouri

Tornado April 17, 2026 · Morgan County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
1.3 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

A National Weather Service survey found damage associated with a tornado that tracked north of Barnett, MO for 1.3 miles. Damage included tree debris blown to the east and north, and metal rods sheltering hay bales bent. Winds along the tornadoes 150 yard wide path were estimated at 85mph.

The wider storm

A vigorous low-pressure system and cold front pushed through the Plains and the Ozarks, interacting with a warm, moist air mass as a strong upper-level trough and a veered wind profile created high wind shear and instability. This set the stage for supercellular development that evolved into bowing line segments. This setup brought destructive straight-line wind gusts of 60-70 mph, with isolated gusts reaching up to 75 mph. Hail up to 2 inches occurred and 5 tornadoes touched down in Benton and Morgan Counties.

Began near Barnett (38.3900, -92.6900).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1329360. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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