NWS Confirms 2 Tornadoes For Southern Missouri Back In March

The National Weather Service now confirms that there were two tornadoes from the March 15^th storms that touched down and did damage in southeast Missouri.

The first was an EF-0 which was on the ground for about two minutes uprooting numerous large trees and snapping a few smaller trees about four miles from Hartshorn in Texas County.

The second was an EF-1 which was on the ground for only a minute but not before tearing the roof off and blowing in windows of a single-wide home and uprooting some large trees about five miles from Akers in Shannon County.

There were no injuries reported from either of the two tornadoes.