The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) says residents who live in mid-Missouri’s Boone, Howard and Moniteau counties have until July to apply for a disaster loan involving the 2025 EF-2 tornado that struck Pilot Grove.
The tornado damaged homes and farms and struck the Katy Manor nursing home. SBA spokeswoman Tana Morehead encourages anyone eligible to apply:
“Any businesses from the contiguous county who might have been doing business with Pilot Grove or any primary counties can apply for economic injury because obviously they may have lost revenue,” Morehead says.
Boone County emergency management director Chris Kelley says residents in Boone and Howard counties are eligible to apply for economic injury disaster loans involving the 2025 tornado that struck Pilot Grove. He and Ms. Morehead spoke to 939 the Eagle News:
“This could even include possibly loss of employees that couldn’t come to work that were driving from Pilot Grove or Cooper County to work. So lost revenue,” Kelley says.
Boone and Howard counties are contiguous counties that were included in President Donald Trump’s federal disaster declaration. The EF-2 tornado damaged numerous homes and farms in Pilot Grove and damaged a nursing home. There were no deaths or serious injuries.