Tornadoes · United States · Missouri · 2026

EF0 tornado, Andrew County, Missouri, May 18, 2026

Name: EF0 tornado, Andrew County, Missouri, May 18, 2026
Start: 2026-05-19T01:11:00.000Z
End: 2026-05-19T01:16:00.000Z
Location: Andrew County, Missouri

This EF0 tornado ran 4.9 miles across Andrew County on May 18, 2026, touching down at 8:11 PM CDT and reaching 75 yards wide. It killed nobody.

Preliminary. This is NWS EAX's damage survey, filed in the Damage Assessment Toolkit as Fillmore, MO Tornado. The rating, the path and the casualties are the survey's and can change while it is revised. The Storm Prediction Center compiles the official record of 2026 from these surveys and publishes it in the spring of 2027; this page moves to that tornado's permanent address when it does.

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 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
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 survey

Rating, as surveyed: EF0, preliminary
Date: May 18, 2026
Touchdown: 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
Lifted: 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
On the ground: 5 minutes
Path length: 4.9 miles (7.8 km)
Path width: 75 yards (69 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Andrew County
Touchdown point: 40.021, -94.990
Lift-off point: 40.051, -94.908
Highest wind the damage implies: 85 mph
Surveyed by: NWS EAX
The office's name for it: Fillmore, MO Tornado
Survey last edited: May 28, 2026
Record number: None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

What the survey found

A NWS Damage Survey team confirmed an EF-0 tornado occurred

Monday evening, 5/18/2026 in and near the city of Fillmore, MO.

The tornado started at 8:11 PM CDT, southwest of the city of

Fillmore. The tornado caused EF-0 tree damage southwest of

Fillmore, and then caused EF-0 damage to several residences and

outbuildings within the city of Fillmore. The tornado continued to

the northeast of Fillmore, causing more EF-0 tree damage and

eventually lifting at 8:16 PM CDT 4 miles east northeast of

Fillmore, near the intersection of County Road 40 and County Road

55.

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

The damage survey

38 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS EAX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 85 mph.

Punched thru tree line. Trees line is about 400 yards from lat/lon.
Shifted house on the foundation about an inch.
Survey concluded straight line winds led to the damage of this metal garage/outbuilding. Initial damage was to the west side of the building, pushing in the wall causing failure of the roof. Debris was oriented in an easterly direction from teh building. Both garage doors were still in place, suggesting no easterly component to the wind. Construction was wood framed with corrugated steel panels.

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

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.

Topeka, KS (KTOP), 00:00Z

1.2 hours before the tornado, 130 km from the path. May 19, 2026.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3248 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 2804 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 370 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.1
Supercell composite: 22.8
0-3 km lapse rate: 6.0 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The surface observations

St. Joseph (STJ), 30 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Temp (°F)	Dew point (°F)	Wind	Gust (kt)	Pressure (mb)	Weather
00:00 UTC

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

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 148 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 01:08 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.

This ground now

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The other tornadoes of May 18, 2026

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

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 18	10:25 AM CDT	EF0	Ford, IL	1.0	80
May 18	2:33 PM EDT	EF0	Otsego, MI	0.1	20
May 18	2:46 PM CDT	Unrated	Jefferson, NE	0.3	15
May 18	2:57 PM CDT	Unrated	Gage, NE	0.6	20
May 18	3:27 PM CDT	Unrated	Cloud, KS	1.2	30
May 18	4:03 PM CDT	Unrated	Washington, KS	2.7	50
May 18	4:05 PM CDT	EF1	Johnson, NE	3.8	200
May 18	4:20 PM CDT	EF1	Nemaha, NE	1.9	80
May 18	4:27 PM CDT	EF0	Nemaha, NE	0.6	20
May 18	4:34 PM CDT	Unrated	Pawnee, NE	0.6	50
May 18	4:46 PM CDT	EF1	Nemaha, KS	4.2	100
May 18	4:55 PM CDT	EF1	Richardson, NE	3.1	200
May 18	5:07 PM CDT	EF1	Richardson, NE	6.5	250
May 18	5:27 PM CDT	EF1	Marshall, KS	15.2	100
May 18	5:33 PM CDT	Unrated	Clay, KS	1.5	0
May 18	6:54 PM CDT	EF0	Ringgold, IA	6.1	30
May 18	7:16 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson, KS	8.2	75
May 18	7:44 PM CDT	EF1	Morris, KS	15.1	50
May 18	9:47 PM CDT	EF1	Ray, MO	17.4	100

What this means

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.

Sources

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.