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EF1 tornado in Nodaway County, Missouri

Tornado April 16, 2024 · Nodaway County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

0.6 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 confirms a brief EF-1 tornado occurred around 9 AM local time west of Hopkins. The tornado damaged structures at two properties along State Highway FF.

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.

Began near Hopkins (40.5455, -94.8870).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Clay County EF0 Nodaway County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1170876. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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