EF0 tornado in Greene County, Missouri

A National Weather Service Survey determined that an EF-1 tornado touched down east of Highway 65 on East Mill Street, just east of Springfield. The tornado tracked to the northeast crossing East Division Street. As the tornado approached Interstate 44, damage was sustained to an automobile service building. The service building lost a couple of overhead doors and two box trucks were overturned. Damage to the roof was also sustained. As it crossed Interstate 44 into Strafford, there was damage to several homes. The damage included a significant loss of roof covering material, damage to gutters, and collapse of garage doors inward. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted along the path. The tornado lifted just before Highway 125 near East Farm Road 84. The tornado produced EF1 damage with maximum winds up to 98 mph and a max width of 75 yards. The tornado was on the ground for 11 minutes along a 7 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.