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EF0 tornado in Platte County, Missouri

Tornado May 6, 2024 · Platte County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
6.0 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

NWS storm survey confirmed a 6 mile long EF-0 tornado that began near the community of Hoover in northeastern Platte County, moving to the northeast and ending on the Platte/Clay County line about two thirds of a mile south of the intersection of County Line Road and Ridgely Road. Peak wind gusts of 80 mph were estimated based upon damage indicators. Most damage was tree damage.

The wider storm

In the late evening hours of May 6th and early morning hours of May 7th, several severe linear features moved through Missouri from west to east. These produced widespread 60 mph straight line wind damage with numerous embedded QLCS mesovortices and a few confirmed QLCS tornadoes.

Began near Hoover (39.3769, -94.6713).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Jackson CountyEF1 Pettis CountyEF1 Randolph CountyEF0 Jackson CountyEF0 Randolph County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1166219. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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