EF1 tornado in Polk County, Missouri

A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado occurred. Damage associated with the tornado near Eudora was first noted with the downing of limbs west of Highway 123. The tornado intensified as it crossed the highway with several trees snapped in a convergent manner before continuing into remote areas. The damage path was again visible along Farm Road 546 where the tornado took the roof off a home, damaged another and overturned a recreational vehicle before diminishing to broken limbs along and east of Farm Road 60. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at 100 mph.

Very moist and unstable conditions developed over the Missouri Ozarks ahead of an intense low pressure system over the southern Plains. Widespread severe storms developed over Oklahoma and eastern Kansas during the early morning hours and tracked eastward into the Springfield county warning area during the afternoon and evening. Very heavy rainfall, hail to tennis ball size, damaging winds in excess of 70 mph and 27 tornadoes occurred with this system as storms tracked repeatedly over the region. Four injuries were reported as a result of severe storms. One injury was near Mountain Grove and three were in southeastern Greene County were an EF-2 Tornado tracked. The resulting rainfall led to widespread flash flooding, which continued into the morning of May 1st, on head water streams and low water crossings. One live was lost when a camper along Hunter Creek in Douglas County drowned as the campground flooded.