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EF0 tornado in Howell County, Missouri

Tornado April 28, 2026 · Howell County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
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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 combination of National Weather Service ground surveys, radar data, and Sentinel-2 satellite data concluded that an EF0 tornado briefly occurred approximately 2 miles south of White Church. A short 0.6-mile confined path of trees were damaged just east of State Route 17.

The wider storm

Several supercells formed across southeast Kansas moved into and across southwest Missouri, bringing very large hail to the area. The most prolific hail-producing storm was a left-moving supercell that split as it moved into Barry County in Missouri, tracking north-northeast through Lawrence, Christian, Greene, Dallas, Webster, Laclede, and Camden counties, producing severe hail for two hours and twenty minutes.

This storm reached peak intensity as it reached Aurora and tracked across northwest Springfield, bringing a large swath of significant severe hail the size of baseballs (2.75 inches) to as large as 4.75 inches (slightly larger than a grapefruit, or around the size of a CD) across the Springfield metropolitan area. Hail was retrieved and measured at 4 inches in diameter at the NWS Springfield office, even after 30 minutes of melting. Widespread damage across the path of this storm was reported to vehicles, homes, businesses, vegetation, and utility infrastructure, including significant damage around the Springfield-Branson National Airport. An emu at Dickerson Park Zoo was killed by the hail, with another animal left in veterinary care, and numerous people were treated in area hospitals for injuries sustained from the hail.

Began near Peace Vly (36.8200, -91.7800).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1329390. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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