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EF0 tornado in Laclede County, Missouri

Tornado April 1, 2024 · Laclede County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

2.0 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$200K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

A NWS storm survey indicated an EF-0 tornado with peak winds of 80 mph uprooted or

snapped over 100 trees as it moved east southeast out of extreme eastern Dallas County and continued across extreme western Laclede Counties before lifting near the town of north northwest of Phillipsburg.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms brought damaging wind, large hail, and five tornadoes to the Missouri Ozarks from the evening of April 1st to the early morning hours of April 2nd. A tornado that occurred near Fair Grove was rated in EF-1. The four other tornadoes were rated EF-0 with three of them occurring from eastern Dallas County into Laclede County. The fourth EF-0 tornado occurred in St. James.

In addition to the tornadoes, storm surveys revealed several different swaths of damaging straight line wind speeds of 70-100 mph. Wind speeds of 90-100 mph caused roof damage to businesses in downtown Carthage with power poles and trees also snapped. Other swaths of significant wind damage occurred near Halltown, Elkland, and along the I-44 corridor from Waynesville to Rolla.

Several thunderstorms also produced hail from the size of quarters to tennis balls. Hail ranging from one to two inches in diameter occurred in an around Bolivar. Tennis ball size hail fell in the town of Maple Grove.

Began near Phillipsburg (37.6268, -92.8495).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Greene County EF0 Phelps County EF0 Laclede County EF0 Laclede County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1174989. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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