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EF1 tornado in Iron County, Missouri

Tornado May 8, 2024 · Iron County, Missouri

EF1
Rating
16.1 mi
Whole path
150 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through 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

A tornado touched down in Arcadia just west of the intersection of North Main Street and Elm Street. It tracked to the east through town snapping off several large trees. After crossing Russellville Road, it either uprooted or snapped off several more large trees on the Arcadia Valley Golf Club. The tornado then began to track more northeasterly and skirted the north shore of Lake Killarney snapping off even more trees as it crossed Highway 72 then crossed it once again, remaining on the north side of Highway 72 before crossing into Madison County. The tornado was rated EF1 in Iron County with a path length of 5.37 miles and a max path width of 150 yards.

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 Ironton (37.5920, -90.6300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Crawford CountyEF1 Reynolds CountyEF1 Iron CountyEF0 Madison County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1173200. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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