Power Outage in Shelbina, MO

Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and tree limbs across northern portions of the county. In Bethel, a power pole was snapped off.

Up to a quarter of an inch of ice was reported over western portions of Shelby County with some power lines and tree limbs knocked down due to the wait of the ice.

A line of severe storms blew down numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines, especially between Bethel and Shelbina. Some of the trees blocked US Highway 36 in Shelbina.

The first tornado formed near Elm Street and Douglas Avenue, north of U.S. Highway 36 at approximately 1245 a.m. CDT. The roof and walls of a corrugated steel building buckled on the west and south sides, along with a portion of the roof. The tornado moved across U.S. Highway 36 and destroyed three unoccupied house trailers. Debris was tossed about 100 yards from the trailers. The tornado continued to move east-southeast and caused roof damage to the town power and water plants on Chestnut Street west of Shelby Street. A portion of the gables holding the roof of the power plant was uplifted and tossed approximately 50 yards to the east. Much of the water plant's roof was removed and tossed 40 to 50 yard to the east. The tornado then caused minor roof damage on homes and snapped numerous large trees about 10 to 20 feet from the base. Some of the large branches fell on top of vehicles. The tornado then caused extensive damage to the roof of the two story town museum on Center Street (Highway 15). Several bricks fell to the ground from the top of the museum roof. Additional tree damage was found east and southeast of the town museum building. The path length was 1.15 miles with width varying between 50 and 70 yards. The tornado was rated an EF1.

In addition to the tornadoes in the area, damaging straight line winds occurred throughout the area, primarily on an axis from 3 miles southwest of Shelbina to 3 miles east of Shelbina. The strongest straight line winds, approaching 90 mph, appear to have occurred east of Shelbina and just south of U.S. Highway 36, where power poles were snapped off by the high winds. Just north of U.S. Highway 36, the west side of a large machine shed also suffered significant straight line wind damage.

As the tornado crossed from far north central Monroe County into southern Shelby County it struck a farmstead just north of County Line Road. At this location two small grain bins were destroyed, one of which was wrapped around a power pole a quarter of a mile to the east. A larger grain bin was partially shifted off its foundation, and suffered a partial collapse on its west side. A nearby windmill was also destroyed. The damage was rated EF0, with a maximum wind speed around 80 mph and a width of 20 yards. The total overall length of the tornado for both Monroe and Shelby counties was 2 miles.

Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees, tree limbs and power lines in town.

Fifteen to twenty power poles were blown down along the Shelby/Monroe county line. Also, several trees were blown down along Highway 15 on the north side of Shelbina.

Gradient winds, estimated between 40 and 60 mph, due to a strong area of low pressure moving through northern Missouri caused some damage over southern sections of Shelby county. In Clarence, several machine sheds were destroyed and several trees were blown over. A couple of homes in town sustained minor shingle damage. Further east in Shelbina, numerous power lines were blown down and a couple of machine sheds were damaged. Numerous trees and tree limbs were snapped off as well.

The County Sheriff reported power lines down in Shelbina.

A fast moving line of thunderstorms brought damaging winds to parts of south Shelby County. Numerous farm buildings in the Clarence and Shelbina areas were either destroyed or suffered major roof damage. In Shelbina, several businesses suffered roof and or window damage. Power poles and lines were down throughout the area.