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EF0 tornado in Dade County, Missouri

Tornado February 27, 2023 · Dade County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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 National Weather Service storm survey concluded that an EF-0 tornado, with maximum wind speeds of 77 mph, heavily damaged a machine barn. Tin was blown in a cyclonic manner. The tornado also broke several tree limbs. The tornado was 1.6 miles long with a maximum width of 200 yards.

The wider storm

A low pressure system intensified rapidly as it moved northeastward across the central Plains into northern Missouri and southern Iowa during the late evening of the 26th and early morning of the 27th. Strong to severe storms developed ahead of the trailing cold front and produced widespread wind damage and three tornadoes over southwest Missouri during the overnight hours. Numerous reports of wind damage were received east of a line from Joplin to Warsaw.

Began near Meinert (37.3720, -94.0450).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Newton CountyEF0 Dade County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1081065. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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