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EF1 tornado in Jasper County, Missouri

Tornado May 6, 2024 · Jasper County, Missouri

EF1
Rating
2.0 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 found an EF-1 tornado path just west of Carthage. Maximum winds were estimated at 95 mph. Trees were uprooted, powerlines were snapped, and several roofs were damaged.

The wider storm

A shortwave trough and an associated cold front pushed through the Missouri Ozarks during the late evening of May 6, 2024 and into the early morning hours of May 7, 2024. Thunderstorms developed along the front west of the Ozarks, quickly growing upscale to a linear storm mode by the time they reached southwest Missouri. This line of thunderstorms pushed through the area, causing widespread wind damage, flash flooding, and several tornadoes.

Began near Morgan Hgts (37.1550, -94.3751).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Jasper CountyEF0 St. Clair CountyEF0 Dade CountyEF0 Greene CountyEF0 Pulaski County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1167418. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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