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EF0 tornado in Worth County, Missouri

Tornado April 26, 2024 · Worth County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

8.5 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$200K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Worth County → Ringgold County, Iowa; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

NWS Des Moines storm survey found evidence of a EF-0 tornado beginning just northwest of Irena, tracking to the north northeast before crossing the Iowa border near US 169 and continuing into WFO Des Moines' area.

The wider storm

On the afternoon hours of April 26th, supercells produced 4 brief EF-0 tornadoes in Bates and Henry Counties.

Began near Irena (40.5585, -94.4058).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Bates County EF0 Bates County EF0 Henry County EFU Holt County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1178342. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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