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EF2 tornado in Jackson County, Missouri

Tornado June 8, 2022 · Jackson County, Missouri

EF2
Rating
9.6 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado developed within a larger bowing line segment of thunderstorms moving across the region. In addition to the tornado, a large swath of wind damage was noted south of the tornado track. In this area, downed tree limbs and other indicators were noted to be blown in the same west to east direction.

The wider storm

Strong to Severe thunderstorms across Kansas and Missouri the evening of June 7th, 2022, continued to evolve into a complex of strong to severe thunderstorms as they moved into the Kansas City Metro area between 12:30 and 1 AM CDT. These storms resulted in numerous reports of wind damage across the region as well as four confirmed tornadoes, one through the southern side of the Kansas City Metro, one in northeastern Jackson County Missouri and two near Louisburg, KS.

Began near Ripley (39.1210, -94.3091).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Jackson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1020607. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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