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EF0 tornado in Lincoln County, Missouri

Tornado November 4, 2024 · Lincoln County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

6.1 mi

Whole path

25 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 25 yards (0.01 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 then crossed Highway 61 from St. Charles County into far southern Lincoln County doing minor and isolated tree damage before lifting. The tornado had a path length of 1.14 miles and a max path width of 25 yards in Lincoln 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 Ethlyn (38.8866, -90.8877).

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 1217697. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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