EF1 tornado in Ozark County, Missouri

This is the continuation of the tornado that touched down and tracked from four miles northeast of Protem, Missouri and tracked to five miles northwest of Theodosia in Ozark County, Missouri. A National Weather Service Storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado touched down four miles northeast of Protem, Missouri and tracked to five miles northwest of Theodosia in Ozark County Missouri. The tornado was on the ground for approximately eight minutes along its 5.4 mile total track maximum wind speeds estimated at 100 mph. This tornado was videotaped at a Theodosia storage business, and was also observed by a local pharmacist. Along with trees snapped and uprooted as the tornado moved to the northeast across western Ozark County, two outbuildings were damaged as it crossed Highway 160. The tornado lifted northeast of County Road 902.

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.