EF0 tornado, Randolph County, Missouri, April 27, 2026

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. 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.

7. 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.

Rating, as surveyed

EF0, preliminary

Date

April 27, 2026

Touchdown

7:29 AM CDT (12:29 UTC)

Path length

8.6 miles (13.8 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Randolph County

Touchdown point

39.315, -92.463

Lift-off point

39.349, -92.314

Highest wind the damage implies

80 mph

Surveyed by

NWS EAX

The office's name for it

Renick

Survey last edited

May 1, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

An EF-0 tornado developed between Higbee and Renick around 7:29 am on April 27. The tornado produced mostly tree damage as it tracked northeastward toward Renick. However, one outbuilding suffered roof damage possibly from a fallen tree. The most severe damage occurred in Renick, with numerous trees down along Business Route 63 between the railroad tracks and U.S. Highway 63. A grove of trees was severely damaged just to the north of the highway, with several other trees downed in this stretch. Minor property damage was also observed at several residences, mostly from fallen trees. The tornado tracked eastward along Route NN east of Renick, chopping tree groves in several spots before gradually weakening as it approached the Monroe County line.

Written by NWS EAX in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

140 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS EAX and NWS LSX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 105 mph.

• One building had sheet metal damage. Another building with shingle damage.
• Tree snapped to the left of the small farm building. Primary farm building missing shingles. Smaller farm building is destroyed.
• An EF-1 tornado touched down around 7:22 AM on April 28 near Yates, MO. This tornado moved northeast and crossed Highway 63 north of Renick, MO and then lifted near County Road 2735 at 7:36 AM. Damage was primarily to trees, however a structure was damage on county road 2480 where the roof of a single residence was lofted and removed from the building. Trees surrounding the structure also feel in multiple different directions.
• Several small-to-medium hardwood limbs snapped or broken in this area.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

17 minutes of warning. NWS EAX issued a tornado warning for this county at 12:12 UTC, 17 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 12:46 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 08:48 UTC and running to 13:19 UTC.

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 Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Enhanced Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 06:00 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 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.

Moberly (MBY), 15 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 163 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 12:27 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.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2026 tornado in MissouriEvery tornado in Missouri since 1950Warnings in force in Missouri nowThe forecast where you are

28 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.