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Mike Griffin, National Weather Service meteorologist in Springfield, says there was one continuous track that started near Kimberling City, moved through the heart of Branson and ended near Kissee (kis-SEE) Mills...
"That was one track that was 22 miles long and about 400 yards wide. We rate that an EF-2, which is a strong tornado."
EF-2 tornadoes pack winds up to 130 mph.
There were three other tracks near Buffalo—that’s where a tornado tore through a mobile home park, killing one and injuring several others...
"One track went south of Buffalo. We found another track that went into the Bennett Springs area, and then we found another track that went through Lebanon, so those are three separate tracks or three separate tornadoes that occurred up there across Dallas and Laclede Counties."
The tornado that hit the mobile home park was labeled an EF-2. The others were an EF-0 and an EF-1.
The areas that were hit by the severe storms early Wednesday morning could see more severe weather tonight and tomorrow...
"And it's gonna start bringing in some Gulf moisture from the south, and by tonight, late tonight into early tomorrow morning, we're gonna have another strong storm system that's gonna move out across the Midwest, interact with some of that warm Gulf moisture that's coming up, and we'll see more scattered showers and thunderstorm breaking out sometime early tomorrow morning and some of those could be on the severe side. We're not looking at a huge tornado threat. The main threat will be large hail up to the size of golf balls possible, damaging wind gusts up to 60-65 miles an hour."
Griffin says there will be a low tornado threat, but that will mainly be east of the Springfield area.