EF0 tornado in Mercer County, Missouri

Tornado April 27, 2024 · Mercer County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

4.0 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 weak EF0 tornado began southeast of Spickard east of 7th Avenue, producing sporadic and intermittent tree damage along its path. The tornado tracked north-northeast across Hwy B and County Line Road into Mercer County before dissipating north of Jasper Road.

The wider storm

On the afternoon and evening hours of April 27, severe storms impacted much of the WFO Kansas City county warning area.

Began near Mill Grove (40.2650, -93.5645).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Bates County EF1 Gentry County EF1 Bates County EF0 Henry County EFU Linn County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1178330. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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