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EF1 tornado in Pettis County, Missouri

Tornado May 6, 2024 – May 7, 2024 · Pettis County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

9.7 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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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 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

An embedded circulation within a line of severe storms moving across the region resulted in an EF-1 tornado beginning northwest of Sedalia and continuing for 9.9 miles to the northeast. The tornado began shortly before 1 AM and lasted about 15 minutes.

The wider storm

In the late evening hours of May 6th and early morning hours of May 7th, several severe linear features moved through Missouri from west to east. These produced widespread 60 mph straight line wind damage with numerous embedded QLCS mesovortices and a few confirmed QLCS tornadoes.

Began near Lamonte (38.7300, -93.3000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Jackson County EF1 Randolph County EF0 Platte County EF0 Jackson County EF0 Randolph County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1188181. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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