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EF0 tornado in Dallas County, Missouri

Tornado April 26, 2026 · Dallas County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

0.9 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$50K

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 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 determined that an EF0 tornado with maximum winds of 70mph produced an intermittent damage path to the east northeast of Buffalo, MO. Reports of a funnel cloud near the ground were received from the Springfield Street area southeast of Buffalo, with the first damage viewed north of Quarry Road in a wooded area. The tornado did the majority of its damage as it crossed Ozark Trail. One mobile home suffered broken glass on the south and north sides of the structure and another on the east side of the structure. Additional damage was noted to several outbuildings. Additional large limbs were noted on Steelman Road and west of Engle Road via Sentinel-2 satellite data analysis.

The wider storm

As storm clusters crossed into Missouri from Kansas a line of storms spawned several embedded circulations. Tornado watches and warnings were triggered across multiple counties in Ozarks. High winds impacted local areas, causing thousands of power outages, particularly in Benton and Morgan counties, where multiple buildings sustained roof damage.

Began near Buffalo (37.6400, -93.0600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Dallas County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1329375. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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