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EF0 tornado in Iron County, Missouri

Tornado May 26, 2024 · Iron County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

18.2 mi

Whole path

167 yd

Path width

$500

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Reynolds 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 167 yards (0.09 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

The tornado tracked east into southern Iron County and then south of Annapolis, where it continued to produce minor tree damage and caused minor damage to the roof panels of a farm outbuilding on County Road 165 and Highway F. From there, the tornado continued into Madison County. The tornado was rated EF0 with a path length of 11.25 miles and a max path width of 167 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported.

The wider storm

During the afternoon and early evening of May 26, 2024, ten tornadoes touched down in the St. Louis metropolitan area and southwest Illinois from a mix of supercells and QLCS modes. This occurred alongside numerous reports of large hail of up to 2.5 inches in diameter and damaging winds of up to 81 mph. Thankfully, there were no reported injuries or fatalities with these thunderstorms.

Began near Annapolis (37.3280, -90.7510).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 St. Louis County EF1 Madison County EF0 Reynolds County EF0 Reynolds County EF0 Jefferson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1181702. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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