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EF1 tornado in Iron County, Missouri

Tornado May 8, 2024 · Iron County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

15.7 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Reynolds County → Iron County → Iron County → Madison 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 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

The tornado continued to track northeast along County Road 149. It snapped off or uprooted numerous trees. Also, a house sustained minor shingle damage to it's roof. Then the tornado shifted it's track a bit more easterly eventually crossing County Road 147, then Highway 49 around three quarters of a mile north of Vulcan. As it crossed Highway F, 3.5 miles northeast of Vulcan, it uprooted several large trees. Then the tornado track shifted back to a northeasterly direction, crossing County Road 135, about 6 miles northeast of Vulcan, where it uprooted or snapped off several more large trees. Then the tornado crossed into southern Madison County. In Iron County, the path length was 12.05 miles with a max path width of 150 yards with a rating of EF1.

The wider storm

The bi-state region was threatened with severe thunderstorms on May 8th. Numerous supercells produced very large hail most of the day, and a small QLCS produced multiple tornadoes in southeast Missouri.

Began near Vulcan (37.3060, -90.7530).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Crawford County EF1 Iron County EF1 Iron County EF0 Madison County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1173180. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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