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EF0 tornado in Stone County, Missouri

Tornado July 3, 2024 · Stone County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
1.1 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 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

A NWS storm survey concluded that a brief EF-0 tornado touched down west of Branson West near State Highway Y. Maximum wind gusts of 80 mph caused numerous trees to be uprooted or snapped along the path, which was confirmed via sentinel satellite data and a law enforcement drone video. The tornado was on the ground for approximately one mile with a path width of 150 yards.

The wider storm

A northeast-southeast oriented cold front from central Kansas across northwest Missouri dropped southeast into the Missouri Ozarks during the afternoon and evening hours on July 3, 2024. Thunderstorms developed along the boundary, bringing hail between 1-3 inches and damaging winds. Of note was 100 mph winds resulting in a cell tower collapsing as well as 3 inch size hail in Stone County. A tornado also occurred in Stone County, resulting in multiple trees to be uprooted or snapped.

Began near Table Rock Res (36.7100, -93.4600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1205253. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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