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EF0 tornado in St. Charles County, Missouri

Tornado November 4, 2024 · St. Charles County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

6.1 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through St. Charles County → Lincoln 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

An EF-0 tornado touched down just after 9:30pm CST on the evening of Monday, November 4th in northwestern St. Charles County. The tornado tracked to the northeast for just under 5 miles, damaging several trees, a pole barn and causing minor damage to a residence. It then tracked into southern Lincoln County. The tornado had a path length of 4.94 miles and a max path width of 75 yards in St. Charles County. No deaths or injuries were reported.

The wider storm

Overnight on Sunday, November 3rd, a shield of rain and thunderstorms moved into the bi-state area. By Monday morning, persistent rainfall resulted in fatal flash flooding in southeast Missouri, with one fatality occurring in Iron County. Later on Monday evening, a QLCS produced two EF-0 tornadoes in east-central Missouri and shifted the axis of heaviest rain to the north. Due to the shift northward, record rainfall amounts caused deadly flash flooding in the St. Louis metropolitan area on Tuesday morning with two fatalities caused by rising waters.

Began near Foristell (38.8355, -90.9519).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Montgomery County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1217696. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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