EF1 tornado in Butler County, Missouri

Peak winds were estimated near 105 mph. Much of the path was in a remote area of the Mark Twain National Forest. The most intense tree damage was where the tornado crossed U.S. Highway 67, about 1.5 miles north of the Highway 60/67 split. About half of the trees in this wooded area were uprooted, including dozens of oak trees and pine trees. Numerous pine trees were uprooted along County Road 522, and a few of them were snapped. A trained spotter observed the tornado from a distance. The tornado track ended about four miles north-northwest of Poplar Bluff.

A cluster of severe thunderstorms over south central Missouri organized into a bowing line of storms as it tracked eastward during the evening. An embedded supercell within the line spawned several tornadoes along an east-west corridor from Ripley County eastward to New Madrid County. A couple of significant tornadoes and damaging wind events accompanied this line, along with large hail. The storms developed along and just ahead of a cold front as it pressed southward into the Lower Ohio Valley and extreme southeast Missouri.