EF1 tornado — Clay County, Missouri

EF1 tornado in Clay County, Missouri

Tornado April 16, 2024 · Clay County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

2.4 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado at Smithville Lake in northwestern Clay County on the morning of April 16th. This tornado was associated with a mesovortex within a squall line. The tornado did most of its damage near Camp Branch Dr and Collins Road where it flipped a trailer and badly damaged a building owned by the Kansas City Trapshooters Association. The tornado ended near County Road W just east of the community of Paradise. In total, the tornado traveled about 2.3 miles, was 50 yards wide, and was rated as an EF-1 with peak winds of 95 mph.

The wider storm

In the morning and afternoon hours of April 16th, a strong low pressure system brought severe weather to much of Missouri. Most of the storm reports were from damaging straight line winds, but there was large hail across NE Missouri and two confirmed tornadoes.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1162671. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF1 tornado in Clay County, Missouri

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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