EF2 tornado in Clinton County, Missouri

This tornado is a continuation of the tornado that moved out of Clay County after impacting Smithville and Smithville Lake on the night of March 6. The tornado reached its strongest rating and its widest size as it crossed out of Clay County into Clinton County while it crossed Smithville Lake. Like in Clay County several residences were impacted in Clinton County by this large tornado that reached 1000 yards wide at its largest point. The worst of the damage occurred just east of Smithville lake where numerous structures were completely destroyed, but like on the west side of the lake the worst of the damage seemed to occur where garage doors became a point of entry for 100+ mph winds and lifted the entire structure off of its foundation. The tornado continued across the rural portions of Clinton County, remaining at least EF-2 until it approached Lathrop, where it became smaller and didn't create as much damage. A few structures on the south end of Lathrop were damaged. The last damage point appeared to be just west of Interstate 35, where a few metal outbuildings had some metal peeled off, but no more damage was located east of I-35. The tornado dissipated between Lathrop and Interstate 35.

On the evening of March 6, 2017 a line of severe thunderstorms formed, then moved into eastern Kansas and western and central Missouri. Ahead of and along this line of storms supercells formed and produced large hail, damaging winds, and several tornadoes. Officially there were 11 tornadoes recorded in the EAX portion of Missouri, with a 12th tornado recorded in Leawood, Kansas, on the Kansas side of the EAX CWA. The most notable of the tornadoes were the EF-2 and EF-3 tornadoes that impacted Smithville, Missouri and Oak Grove, Missouri respectively. According to news reports there were 12 injuries associated with the Oak Grove tornado, but despite the widespread significant damage there were no fatalities. As the line of storms moved eastward several embedded supercells and mesovortices produced several more tornadoes across northern and central Missouri. By the end of the event, officially there were four EF-1 tornadoes, one EF-2 tornado (Smithville, MO), one EF-3 (Oak Grove, MO), and five EF-0 tornadoes in Missouri. The Leawood Kansas tornado was rated EF-0 as well, rounding out the 12 confirmed tornadoes in the EAX CWA from that evening.