EF1 tornado in McDonald County, Missouri

A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 94 mph downed trees as it moved into McDonald County, Missouri from Delaware County, Oklahoma. The tornado originally touched down near Jay, Oklahoma and tracked more than 16 and a half miles, before uprooting trees as it crossed into Missouri and lifted a tenth of a mile into McDonald County, just east of the intersection of South 700 Road and County Road SW4355. No structural damage was noted in Missouri.

Multiple rounds of storms producing heavy rainfall, severe winds, hail and tornadoes moved across the Missouri Ozarks from May 20th and into the early morning hours of May 24th as upper level disturbances interacted with a slow moving but powerful storm system over the central Plains. Tornadoes occurred with each round, with the strongest and most numerous tornadoes occurring during the late afternoon and evening of the 22nd. On the anniversary of the Joplin Tornado off 2011, another tornado, rated EF-3 struck the north side of Joplin. This storm system eventually produced subsequent tornadoes in Golden City, Eldon and Jefferson City. Unfortunately there were three fatalities as a result of the tornado in Golden City. The cumulative rainfall caused areas of flash flooding with some flooding lingering across the region. Some locations in southeastern Kansas and southwestern Missouri reported in excess of 8 inches of rainfall over the 72 hour period. .