EF1 tornado in Douglas County, Missouri

A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado that tracked from four miles southwest of Squires, Missouri to five miles northeast of Squires. The tornado was on the ground for approximately 20 minutes along its nearly nine mile track with maximum wind speeds estimated at 107 mph. This tornado was observed by a local resident, and also presented multiple TDSs on radar. The tornado damaged thousands of trees, a church on Highway 14 and VV and a couple of outbuildings. The tornado tracked northeast from touch down to approximately one mile northeast of Squires, east of Highway 5, before turning and tracking north northeast finally lifting about a half mile north of Highway 14.

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.