EF1 tornado in Lafayette County, Missouri

This is a continuation of the EF-3 tornado that moved out of Jackson County and into Lafayette County. After the tornado devastated portions of Oak Grove, Missouri it traveled south of Bates City, doing mainly tree damage in rural Lafayette County. it then moved into Odessa, where it produced more EF-1 damage in the west part of Odessa. The bulk of the damage was to permanent residential structures across Odessa. The tornado weakened as it went east of Odessa, and finally dissipated just south of Interstate 70 east of Odessa.

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.