Tornadoes · United States · Missouri · 2025
EF1 tornado, Wheaton to Pioneer, Missouri, June 6, 2025
From Wheaton to Pioneer, this EF1 tornado ran 3.2 miles across Barry County on June 6, 2025, touching down at 7:27 AM CDT and reaching 100 yards wide. It killed nobody, and did $50,000 of property damage.
The rating scale
Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.
EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.
The record
- Rating
- EF1
- Date
- June 6, 2025
- Touchdown
- 7:27 AM CDT (12:27 UTC)
- Lifted
- 7:35 AM CDT (12:35 UTC)
- On the ground
- 8 minutes
- Path length
- 3.2 miles (5.1 km)
- Path width
- 100 yards (91 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- County
- Barry County
- Touchdown point
- 36.760, -94.060
- Lift-off point
- 36.804, -94.049
- Record number
- 2506060627-01
The damage survey
5 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS SGF, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 95 mph.
- Roof and wall segment pulled north.
- Trees were also uprooted northeast, northwest
- Debris broke siding on all four sides. Large tree tops blown south.
- Upstream trees were blown northwest
Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.
What the Weather Service recorded
A round of showers and thunderstorms occurred during the late night hours of June 5th through the morning hours of June 6th. A line of thunderstorms moved into the area from the southwest and caused damaging winds and a tornado. Additional rainfall on June 7th caused flash flooding occurred due to saturated soils.
An NWS Survey concluded that an EF1 tornado with up to 85 mph winds began at the Body of Christ church on the southwest side of Wheaton. The tornado was confirmed by several eyewitnesses along with rotational debris pattern to structures and trees. The tornado pulled multiple sections of roofing off poultry barns northeast of Wheaton before damaging trees a half mile northeast then dissipated.
From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.
The warnings
No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.
The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 10:30 UTC and running to 14:49 UTC.
| Issued (UTC) | Expired | Product | Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 UTC | 17:16 UTC | Flood Watch | SGF |
| 10:30 UTC | 14:49 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SGF |
| 11:56 UTC | 12:45 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF |
| 12:41 UTC | 13:30 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF |
Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.
The forecast that day
The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 05:43 UTC.
SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.
The air that afternoon
The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.
Springfield, MO (KSGF), 00:00Z
11.5 hours after it, 26 km from the path. June 7, 2025.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Surface CAPE
- 639 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
- 0-3 km lapse rate
- 5.5 K/km
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 12:25 UTC.
Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track
Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.
What was reported nearby
Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Report | Where | County | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:24 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 1 S Shoal Creek Estate | Newton, MO | delayed report of 3 inch tree limbs down south of Shoal Creek Estates. |
| 11:25 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | South West City | Mcdonald, MO | Delayed report of a tree down and large branches down in Southwest city. |
| 11:37 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Wnw Noel | Mcdonald, MO | Delayed report of several trees down on hilltop road west of Noel. |
| 11:40 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Nne Anderson | Mcdonald, MO | Delayed report of a tree uprooted in the Anderson/Goodman area. |
| 11:42 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | Neosho | Newton, MO | Tree down in Neosho. |
| 11:45 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Sw Pineville | Mcdonald, MO | Delayed report of winds blowing down a tree and snapped power poles 3 miles west of Pineville on Highway H. |
| 12:00 UTC | RAIN 1.4 | Cliff Village | Newton, MO | One hour total. Mesonet station JOPM7 Shoal Creek at Joplin. |
| 12:00 UTC | RAIN 1.65 | Cliff Village | Newton, MO | One hour total. Mesonet station AU695 Cliff Village. |
| 12:00 UTC | RAIN 2.12 | 1 Sw Goodman | Mcdonald, MO | One hour total. Mesonet station GW2092 GOODMAN. |
| 12:08 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Nnw Powell | Mcdonald, MO | Delayed report of a tree falling on a house in the Stella/Powell area. |
| 12:17 UTC | FLASH FLOOD | 4 S Shoal Creek Estate | Newton, MO | Report from mPING, River overflowing, Yard, Basement Flooding. |
| 12:25 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | Wheaton | Barry, MO | Reports of power poles across the roadway. Time based on radar. |
| 12:27 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | Wheaton | Barry, MO | Church in town wall blown in. Power poles and trees down. Time based on radar. |
| 12:27 UTC | TORNADO | Wheaton | Barry, MO | An NWS Survey concluded that an EF1 tornado with up to 85 mph winds began at the Body of Christ church on the southwest side of Wheaton. The tornado was confirmed by several eyewitnesses along with rotational debris patt |
| 12:27 UTC | TORNADO | Wheaton | Barry, MO | Corrects previous tornado report from Wheaton. An NWS Survey concluded that an EF1 tornado with up to 95 mph winds began at the Body of Christ church on the southwest side of Wheaton. The tornado was confirmed by several |
| 12:30 UTC | RAIN 1.18 | Neosho | Newton, MO | One hour total. Mesonet station GW5241 NEOSHO. |
| 12:50 UTC | FLASH FLOOD | Racine | Newton, MO | Delayed report of flooding along state highway CC in Racine. |
| 12:57 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Ssw Stotts City | Lawrence, MO | tree down on roadway. Time based on radar. |
| 13:27 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Ssw Hoberg | Lawrence, MO | Delayed report of thunderstorms downing a limb and blocking the roadway near Hoberg. |
| 13:40 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Ssw Everton | Lawrence, MO | A delayed report of a tree down at this location. Time estimated via radar. |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.
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The other tornadoes of June 6, 2025
24 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 6 | 3:55 AM CDT | EF1 | Kingfisher, OK | 8.2 | 300 | $20,000 | ||
| June 6 | 4:48 AM CDT | EF0 | McClain, OK | 1.5 | 30 | $15,000 | ||
| June 6 | 4:54 AM CDT | EF0 | McClain, OK | 1.3 | 100 | $1,000 | ||
| June 6 | 5:28 AM CDT | EF0 | Cleveland, OK | 2.4 | 200 | $50,000 | ||
| June 6 | 5:52 AM CDT | EF0 | McClain, OK | 2.3 | 50 | $2,000 | ||
| June 6 | 5:56 AM CDT | EF1 | Mayes, OK | 4.8 | 300 | $75,000 | ||
| June 6 | 6:22 AM CDT | EF1 | McIntosh, OK | 5.6 | 300 | |||
| June 6 | 6:52 AM CDT | EF1 | Sequoyah, OK | 7.6 | 1,100 | $30,000 | ||
| June 6 | 7:04 AM CDT | EF1 | Sequoyah, OK | 3.0 | 650 | |||
| June 6 | 7:12 AM CDT | EF1 | Sequoyah, OK | 4.0 | 650 | $20,000 | ||
| June 6 | 7:31 AM CDT | EF1 | Sequoyah, OK | 3.6 | 900 | $20,000 | ||
| June 6 | 7:45 AM CDT | EF0 | Crawford, AR | 1.2 | 250 | $15,000 | ||
| June 6 | 7:46 AM CDT | EF1 | Crawford, AR | 0.8 | 120 | 1 | $500,000 | |
| June 6 | 7:49 AM CDT | EF0 | Crawford, AR | 1.1 | 550 | $5,000 | ||
| June 6 | 6:54 PM CDT | Unrated | Cimarron, OK | 0.8 | 25 | |||
| June 6 | 7:04 PM CDT | Unrated | Hockley, TX | 0.0 | 30 | |||
| June 6 | 7:15 PM CDT | Unrated | Hockley, TX | 0.0 | 30 | |||
| June 6 | 7:31 PM CDT | Unrated | Hockley, TX | 0.0 | 30 | |||
| June 6 | 8:48 PM CDT | Unrated | Hansford, TX | 0.3 | 50 | |||
| June 6 | 8:52 PM CDT | EF0 | Maury, TN | 2.6 | 175 | $250,000 | ||
| June 6 | 9:06 PM CDT | Unrated | Hansford, TX | 1.8 | 75 | |||
| June 6 | 9:13 PM CDT | EF2 | Hansford, TX | 9.5 | 150 | $120,000 | ||
| June 6 | 10:05 PM CDT | Unrated | Cimarron, OK | 5.5 | 50 | $2,000 | ||
| June 6 | 11:20 PM CDT | Unrated | Wheeler, TX | 0.9 | 25 |
What this means
Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.
Sources
NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.