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EF0 tornado in Barry County, Missouri

Tornado May 10, 2008 · Barry County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
3.8 mi
Path length
800 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 800 yards (0.45 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

A NWS storm survey confirmed a second tornado associated with the killer Picher-Racine-Purdy Supercell. Initiating roughly a half mile south of the end point of the first tornado, the second tornado downed numerous trees along and south of Flat Creek.

The wider storm

Three tornadoes were spawned from supercell thunderstorms that developed over southeast Kansas. These storms quickly moved into southwest Missouri causing devestating damage to homes, businesses, and trees in Newton, Barry, and Jasper counties. One tornado, with an intensity that ranged from EF-4 to EF-1, killed 15 people as it tracked through Newton and Barry counties, while another tornado killed one person in Jasper County.

Began near Mc Dowell (36.8143, -93.7811).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF4 Picher Tornado (2008) 21 deadEF1 Jasper County 1 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 103227. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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