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Unrated tornado, Muenster, Texas, May 19, 2025

Name: Unrated tornado, Muenster, Texas, May 19, 2025
Start: 2025-05-19T23:02:00.000Z
End: 2025-05-19T23:03:00.000Z
Location: Muenster, Texas

This Unrated tornado ran 0.1 miles across Cooke County on May 19, 2025, touching down at 6:02 PM CDT and reaching 30 yards wide. It killed nobody.

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 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.
Unratedthis tornado
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: Unrated
Date: May 19, 2025
Touchdown: 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Lifted: 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
On the ground: 1 minutes
Path length: 0.1 miles (0.2 km)
Path width: 30 yards (27 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Cooke County
Touchdown point: 33.667, -97.477
Lift-off point: 33.667, -97.475
Record number: 2505191702-01

The damage survey

1 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS FWD, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EFU.

A tornado was confirmed by chaser video east of Saint Jo on private land. Grass was laid down in a circular pattern in a field, but the tornado dissipated before reaching an area of trees. Video shows the tornado only lasted about 10 seconds.

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

An eastward-surging dryline provided focus for yet another round of strong to severe thunderstorms as an upper level trough swept through the Plains on May 19. Montague County received the majority of the severe weather, as the triple point between the dryline, cold front, and warm front remained stationary near that location for several hours. Storms eventually expanded south, and spread east through the rest of the region late that afternoon and into the evening. Hail up to 4.5 inches was reported in the Saint Jo area in Montague County. In addition, 3 brief tornadoes occurred in counties along the Red River: 1 EF-Unknown, and 2 EF-0s.

A tornado was confirmed by chaser video east of Saint Jo on private land. Grass was laid down in a circular pattern in a field, but the tornado dissipated before reaching an area of trees. Video shows the tornado only lasted about 10 seconds. This tornado was rated EF-Unknown.

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 tornado watch, issued at 19:05 UTC and running to 02:00 UTC.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
19:05 UTC	02:00 UTC	Tornado Watch	FWD
20:42 UTC	20:58 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD
21:23 UTC	22:03 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD
22:55 UTC	00:00 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD
23:49 UTC	00:45 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD
00:57 UTC	01:44 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD
04:45 UTC	04:58 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD

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 Moderate Risk, with a 0.15 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 19:52 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at May 19, 1:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier. Its key messages:

Additional severe thunderstorms will develop this afternoon and evening with the highest coverage near and north of I-20. All severe weather hazards are possible.
A cold front on Tuesday will knock temperatures back down to near normal for the middle of next work week, with afternoon highs in the low to the mid 80s.
There will be daily chances (20-30%) for afternoon/evening thunderstorms beginning Thursday.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 1:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
139 PM CDT Mon May 19 2025

...New Short Term, Aviation, Long Term...

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Additional severe thunderstorms will develop this afternoon and
  evening with the highest coverage near and north of I-20. All
  severe weather hazards are possible.

- A cold front on Tuesday will knock temperatures back down to
  near normal for the middle of next work week, with afternoon
  highs in the low to the mid 80s.

- There will be daily chances (20-30%) for afternoon/evening
  thunderstorms beginning Thursday.

&&

.SHORT TERM... /NEW/
/Through Tuesday Night/

Bottom Line: Pay close attention to the weather this afternoon!
Severe weather is expected - large hail, damaging winds and
tornadoes are all possible today!

The ingredients are coming together for another round of severe
weather this afternoon. An approaching upper trough, currently
across New Mexico, will continue moving eastward this afternoon.
Forcing for ascent will only increase across our region as the
aforementioned trough moves east. Meanwhile, a dryline has
sharped from Wichita Falls to Abilene, providing a concentrated
area for surface convergence that will lead to additional
thunderstorm development in the coming hours.

The near-surface environment is characterized by warm/hot
temperatures and dew point temperatures in the lower to mid 70s.
Given less cirrus cloud-cover today compared to previous days,
surface heating will likely contribute to more robust thunderstorm
development. The capping inversion sampled by the 12z balloon has
weakened some according to the latest aircraft soundings,
affirming that our thunderstorm chances will increase this
afternoon.

As the trough inches closer to our region, further lifting of the
inversion is expected, leading to a minimally capped atmosphere
by around 3pm. Given the hot and moist boundary layer in place,
surface base instability will approach 4000 J/kg this afternoon.
With lapse rates around 8 C/km, extreme instability and effective
shear approaching 70 kts, supercells will be the primary storm
mode through the afternoon. Out of the last several thunderstorm
days, today's 0-1 km shear is much stronger, indicating the higher
risk for tornadoes. Given the alignment of all the parameters,
there will the threat for a significant tornado this afternoon,
mainly north of the I-20 corridor.

Closer to sunset, individual supercellular structures may congeal
into clusters of storms, still capable of producing very large
hail, tornadoes and damaging winds. By sunset, storms will likely
be east of I-35 with areas west of I-35 in the clear.

Tonight, a few of the CAMs suggest additional thunderstorm
development across Central Texas as another small impulse rounds
the base of the large scale trough. Given the presence of the
capping inversion across Central Texas, if storms occur, they
would remain elevated with much lower instability to work with.

As the trough shifts east tonight, it will drag a cold front
across our region tomorrow morning. This cold front will help move
all the residual moisture east, ending our daily thunderstorm
chances. Northerly breezy winds are expected, at times approaching
20 mph. Afternoon temperatures will be in the upper 70s to mid
80s with much lower humidity levels.

Hernandez

&&

.LONG TERM... /NEW/
Update:
The brief reprieve from the daily storm chances will continue
into Wednesday, with additional storm chances arriving Thursday.
Given a lack of concentrated forcing for ascent, confidence in
thunderstorm timing and location each afternoon will remain low.
Additional details can be found in the discussion below.

Hernandez

Previous Discussion:
/Wednesday through Sunday/

...Wednesday...

Dry post-frontal air will be in place during the day on Wednesday,
as a high pressure to the north funnels a slightly cooler and
stable airmass into the region. This will keep skies clear and
conditions mild, with highs in the 80s and dew points in the 50s.

...Thursday through Sunday...

Though upper-level ridging will build into the central CONUS for
the end of the week into this upcoming weekend, surface high
pressure will shift to the east/northeast, allowing for southerly
flow to bring Gulf moisture back into the region. This will allow
dew points to increase again into the upper 60s and 70s, and highs
to rebound into the upper 80s and low 90s. In the mid-levels,
parcel trajectories will be more off the Gulf as opposed to the
Mexican Plateau. This will keep warmer air aloft and the EML to
the west, resulting in a weaker capping inversion and weak mid-
level lapse rates. On the dynamics front, medium range guidance is
beginning to resolve weak disturbances that will slowly traverse
the southern Plains during this time frame. This set up will favor
daily chances for isolated showers and thunderstorms (20 to 30%
chance).

While the details are unclear at this time range, the
general trend favors slightly higher coverage near the Red River
(less SBCIN) and east Texas (more surface moisture). Furthermore,
SBCAPE may increase to the 2000-3000 J/kg range owing to a very
moist boundary layer. In this environment, a storm or two may
briefly be capable of large hail or damaging winds, but in the
absence of strong shear or any meaningful synoptic features,
organized severe weather appears unlikely at this time. This also
means that favored areas for thunderstorm development will
partially depend on activity the day prior, as remnant outflow
boundaries, though hard to predict their location far in advance,
can have important implications on where storms develop later the
next day. Thermodynamically driven convection like this will also
be tied to the diurnal cycle, with convection developing during
the afternoon hours, and quickly dissipating after sunset.

Darrah

&&

.AVIATION... /NEW/
/18Z TAFs/

Another active afternoon is expected for the aviation community
as thunderstorms develop in the coming hours. A few showers and
isolated storms have moved across D10, however, the main
thunderstorm activity is now in the process of initiation along a
dryline. The dryline currently extends from KSPS to KABI. By
2-3pm, expect thunderstorms to develop along the boundary and
begin to move eastward.

Storms will approach the D10 airspace by 22Z, with impacts to
arrivals and departures looking likely. Northern parts of D10 are
more likely to see severe thunderstorms than the southern parts.
Storms will be capable of producing large hail, damaging winds and
tornadoes.

A mention of TSRA has been included between 23z-01z this is the
most likely timeframe to see thunderstorms impact the airfield.
Storms will be moving rather quickly, so refinements to TSRA are
likely once storms develop and exact time of arrival can be
assessed.

The storms will continue moving eastward across North Texas late
this afternoon and into the evening. There are indications that a
cluster of storms may develop closer to midnight across Central
Texas, however, confidence in this development remains low. No
mention of thunder was introduced to KACT for tonight, however,
this will also continue to be assessed over the coming hours.

A cold front is expected to arrive around 12Z tomorrow morning,
shifting our winds from south to northeasterly. Wind speeds behind
the front will increase, generally between 12-16 kts. Clear skies
are expected tomorrow, thus, no ceiling restrictions are expected.

Hernandez

&&

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
Spotter activation may be requested across North Texas late this
afternoon and evening. Even if activation is not locally
requested, any reports of hazardous weather to the National
Weather Service are appreciated.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Dallas-Ft. Worth    67  83  63  89  67 /  50   0   0   0   5
Waco                68  84  59  88  67 /  30   0   0   0   0
Paris               69  79  58  85  61 /  70   0   0   0   0
Denton              60  82  57  89  62 /  50   0   0   0   5
McKinney            65  81  59  88  63 /  60   0   0   0   5
Dallas              68  82  62  88  66 /  50   0   0   0   5
Terrell             68  83  59  88  64 /  50   0   0   0   5
Corsicana           72  86  62  90  67 /  30   0   0   0   0
Temple              68  89  59  91  69 /  20   0   0   0   5
Mineral Wells       60  84  57  90  64 /  10   0   0   0   5

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.
&&

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 19, 4:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
407 PM CDT Mon May 19 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0402 PM     Hail             Bowie                   33.56N 97.85W
05/19/2025  E1.00 Inch       Montague           TX   Public

            Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

&&

MB

Local storm report, May 19, 4:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
420 PM CDT Mon May 19 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0418 PM     Hail             Montague                33.67N 97.72W
05/19/2025  M1.75 Inch       Montague           TX   Amateur Radio

            Golf ball sized hail in Montague.

&&

MB

Local storm report, May 19, 4:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
428 PM CDT Mon May 19 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0428 PM     Hail             4 E Nocona              33.80N 97.66W
05/19/2025  M1.75 Inch       Montague           TX   Emergency Mngr

            Golf ball sized hail 4 east of Nocona.

&&

MB

Local storm report, May 19, 4:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
429 PM CDT Mon May 19 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0419 PM     Hail             1 SW Montague           33.66N 97.74W
05/19/2025  E1.75 Inch       Montague           TX   Public

            Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.).

&&

MB

Local storm report, May 19, 4:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
433 PM CDT Mon May 19 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0432 PM     Hail             12 NNE Nocona           33.94N 97.63W
05/19/2025  M1.00 Inch       Montague           TX   Emergency Mngr

            Quarter sized hail and high winds in Spanish
            Fort.

&&

MB

Local storm report, May 19, 4:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
437 PM CDT Mon May 19 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0434 PM     Hail             7 N Saint Jo            33.80N 97.52W
05/19/2025  M4.50 Inch       Montague           TX   Broadcast Media

            4.5 inch diameter hail 7 miles north of
            Saint Jo.

&&

MB

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.

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), 12:00Z

11.0 hours before the tornado, 95 km from the path. May 19, 2025.

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: 2312 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -190 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 2329 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 382 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 9.6
0-3 km lapse rate: 4.2 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), 00:00Z

1.0 hours after it, 95 km from the path. May 20, 2025.

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

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 3422 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 278 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.9
Supercell composite: 19.5
0-3 km lapse rate: 6.6 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:01 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
20:42 UTC	HAIL 2	4 Sw Ringgold	Montague, TX	Report from mPING: Hen Egg (2.00 in.).
21:01 UTC	HAIL 1.5	Bowie	Montague, TX	Ping pong ball sized hail in Bowie.
21:02 UTC	HAIL 1	Bowie	Montague, TX	Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).
21:18 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Montague	Montague, TX	Golf ball sized hail in Montague.
21:19 UTC	HAIL 1.75	1 Sw Montague	Montague, TX	Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.).
21:20 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Montague	Montague, TX	Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.).
21:24 UTC	HAIL 1.5	1 N Bowie	Montague, TX	Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.).
21:28 UTC	HAIL 1.75	4 E Nocona	Montague, TX	Golf ball sized hail 4 east of Nocona.
21:32 UTC	HAIL 1	12 Nne Nocona	Montague, TX	Quarter sized hail and high winds in Spanish Fort.
21:34 UTC	HAIL 4.5	7 N Saint Jo	Montague, TX	4.5 inch diameter hail 7 miles north of Saint Jo.
22:56 UTC	HAIL 2.75	2 Nw Saint Jo	Montague, TX	Baseball sized hail on Highway 82 west of Saint Jo.
22:57 UTC	HAIL 4	4 Nw Saint Jo	Montague, TX	Softball sized hail 4 miles northwest of Saint Jo.
23:02 UTC	HAIL 1	5 N Saint Jo	Montague, TX	Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).
23:02 UTC	TORNADO	3 Se Saint Jo	Cooke, TX	Several stormchaser videos and Texas Tech mobile radar data show a brief tornado touched down near Powell Ranch Lane south of US 82.
23:07 UTC	HAIL 4	4 N Saint Jo	Montague, TX	Report from mPING: Grapefruit (4.00 in.).
23:13 UTC	HAIL 2.5	9 Ne Saint Jo	Cooke, TX	Golf ball to tennis ball sized hail 10 miles N of Muenster near Bulcher.
23:14 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Saint Jo	Montague, TX	Golf ball sized hail in Saint Jo.
23:23 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	1 Wsw Bowie	Montague, TX	Two overhead doors damaged by high winds at VFD 1 mile south of Bowie on Hwy 59.
23:25 UTC	HAIL 1.75	3 N Saint Jo	Montague, TX
23:50 UTC	HAIL 2	5 Se Bowie	Montague, TX	2 inch hail reported in Fruitland.
23:56 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	7 Sse Bowie	Montague, TX	Power line blown down onto a house on just north of Lawhorn Lane and Hwy 287 north of Sunset.
23:57 UTC	HAIL 1.25	8 Nnw Alvord	Montague, TX	Social media photo showed half dollar size hail in Sunset.
01:09 UTC	HAIL 1	1 Wsw Gainesville	Cooke, TX	Quarter sized hail just west of Gainesville.
01:10 UTC	TSTM WND GST 62	Gainesville	Cooke, TX
01:15 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Gainesville	Cooke, TX	Several tree limbs blown down across Gainesville.
01:15 UTC	TSTM WND GST 70	1 Sse Gainesville	Cooke, TX	Measured on roof of county courthouse at an elevation of 30 feet.
01:25 UTC	HAIL 1	2 N Callisburg	Cooke, TX	Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

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

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The other tornadoes of May 19, 2025

43 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 19	2:46 PM CDT	EF1	Hughes, OK	4.4	600		$30,000
May 19	2:53 PM CDT	EF0	Hughes, OK	1.8	40		$2,000
May 19	5:03 PM CDT	EF1	Cherokee, OK	2.6	600		$20,000
May 19	5:29 PM CDT	EF1	Dodge, NE	1.7	70
May 19	5:37 PM CDT	EF1	Atoka, OK	1.0	400
May 19	5:44 PM CDT	EF3	Pittsburg, OK	16.0	3,000	1	$500,000
May 19	5:50 PM CDT	Unrated	Pawnee, NE	2.1	50
May 19	6:14 PM CDT	EF1	Pittsburg, OK	11.1	1,500		$150,000
May 19	6:22 PM CDT	EF1	Muskogee, OK	9.5	900		$85,000
May 19	6:31 PM CDT	EF1	Pittsburg, OK	0.3	100
May 19	6:42 PM CDT	EF0	Wabaunsee, KS	0.4	40
May 19	6:44 PM CDT	EF1	Cherokee, OK	12.3	1,100		$50,000
May 19	6:47 PM CDT	EF1	Cherokee, OK	10.4	1,300
May 19	6:55 PM CDT	EF1	Adair, OK to AR	16.7	2,200		$50,000
May 19	6:55 PM CDT	EF1	St. Clair, MO to OK, AR	4.6	50		$150,000
May 19	7:11 PM CDT	EF1	Adair, OK to AR	8.2	1,000
May 19	7:15 PM CDT	EF1	Henry, MO	3.5	200
May 19	7:20 PM CDT	EF1	Washington, AR	11.6	900		$100,000
May 19	7:21 PM CDT	EF1	Washington, AR	1.0	500
May 19	7:21 PM CDT	EF1	LeFlore, OK	11.9	1,100
May 19	7:24 PM CDT	EF1	Benton, MO	1.3	500		$115,000
May 19	7:28 PM CDT	EF1	Benton, MO	4.3	500		$148,000
May 19	7:29 PM CDT	EF2	Washington, AR	13.6	1,100		$1.0 million
May 19	7:34 PM CDT	EF1	Sebastian, OK to AR	21.4	1,000		$1.5 million
May 19	7:35 PM CDT	EF1	Benton, MO	4.4	300		$160,000
May 19	7:54 PM CDT	EF1	Madison, AR	14.3	900		$100,000
May 19	7:56 PM CDT	EF1	Madison, AR	2.4	550		$60,000
May 19	8:02 PM CDT	Unrated	Jefferson, MO	2.4	1
May 19	8:11 PM CDT	EF1	Carroll, AR	7.2	2,300
May 19	8:21 PM CDT	EF1	Carroll, AR	4.2	1,000		$30,000
May 19	8:32 PM CDT	EF0	Buchanan, MO	4.3	20
May 19	8:56 PM CDT	EF1	Washington, MO	2.8	50
May 19	10:18 PM CDT	EF1	Dent, MO	6.4	50		$30,000
May 19	10:20 PM CDT	EF0	Dent, MO	1.0	75		$80,000
May 19	10:20 PM CDT	EF0	Fannin, TX	1.4	75
May 19	10:21 PM CDT	EF0	Dent, MO	4.3	50		$55,000
May 19	10:28 PM CDT	EF0	Dent, MO	1.9	50		$25,000
May 19	10:39 PM CDT	EF0	Washington, MO	2.2	140
May 19	10:40 PM CDT	EF0	Reynolds, MO	1.6	50
May 19	10:50 PM CDT	EF1	Crawford, MO	1.0	270		$60,000
May 19	11:31 PM CDT	EF1	Saint Francois, MO	4.2	500		$30,000
May 19	12:02 AM CDT	EF0	Sainte Genevieve, MO	1.3	25
May 19	12:21 AM CDT	EF1	Randolph, IL	0.5	25		$30,000

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.