EF1 tornado in Polk County, Missouri

A National Weather Service survey determined that an EF1 tornado touched down to the southwest of Fair Play in Cedar County and tracked to the northeast for a total of 8.8 miles, lifting west of Dunnegan in Polk County with maximum winds of 110 mph. Shortly after touchdown and downing trees in Cedar County, the tornado completely destroyed a manufactured home as it crossed the county line at South 10th Road into Polk County. The tornado then continued tracking to the northeast. It passed just to the west and northwest of Fair Play before crossing Highway 123. The tornado lifted just to the west of Highway 13 and to the north of East 380th Road in Polk County. Along the path of the tornado there were several trees uprooted or snapped, damage to a few homes, and several outbuildings destroyed. The tornado produced EF1 damage with maximum winds up to 110 mph and a max width of 50 yards. The tornado was on the ground for 14 minutes along an 8.8 mile path.

During the afternoon and evening of the 10th, strong to severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front over eastern Oklahoma and southeast Kansas before spreading northeast into the Missouri Ozarks through the early morning of the 11th. Several tornadoes rated as EF-0 and EF-1 occurred near the towns of Strafford, Fair Play and Cross Timbers, and hail up to the size of golf balls occurred on the east side of Springfield. Widespread rainfall amounts of two to four inches led to flooding and closures of numerous county roads and state highways. Several swift water rescues were performed and unfortunately there was one flood-related fatality near Conway in Laclede County, when a 53-year old woman attempted to drive across a flooded low water crossing.