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EF0 tornado in Saline County, Missouri

Tornado August 4, 2023 · Saline County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

1.5 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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

Live stream from a storm chaser showed a brief tornado that began just ENE of Malta Bend near Highway 65 and continued to the east about 1.5 miles before ending.

The wider storm

On the afternoon and evening of August 4th, severe storms developed over western Missouri and moved eastward into central Missouri. A supercell produced a 4.5 mile long EF0 tornado in rural Ray County near the community of Millville, with another supercell producing a 1.5 mile long EF0 near Malta Bend in Saline County. A few other wind damage and 60 mph wind gusts reports were received with these storms.

Began near Malta Bend (39.1972, -93.3529).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Ray County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1106033. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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