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EF0 tornado in Bates County, Missouri

Tornado April 26, 2024 · Bates County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

0.8 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 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

Storm survey found evidence of a brief, 0.8 mile EF-0 tornado in Bates County just southeast of the community of Pleasant Gap.

The wider storm

On the afternoon hours of April 26th, supercells produced 4 brief EF-0 tornadoes in Bates and Henry Counties.

Began near Pleasant Gap (38.1592, -94.1396).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Worth County EF0 Bates County EF0 Henry County EFU Holt County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1170921. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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