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EF0 tornado in Polk County, Missouri

Tornado May 6, 2024 · Polk County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

18.7 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

Injury

$73K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Greene County → Polk County → Dallas County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

This is a continuation of an EF-0 tornado that touched down in Greene County. Once the tornado crossed into Polk County, it continued it's intermittent path northeast, intermittently uprooting trees and causing limb damage for 3.7 miles before crossing into Dallas County.

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 Tin Town (37.4190, -93.2410).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Jasper County EF1 Jasper County EF0 St. Clair County EF0 Dade County EF0 Pulaski County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1172697. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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