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EF0 tornado in Stone County, Missouri

Tornado November 4, 2024 · Stone County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

1.4 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$35K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 confirmed that a brief EF-0 tornado with peak winds of 77 mph, a path length of 1.40 miles, and a width of 50 yards occurred 1 mile west-northwest of Elsey in Stone County. This tornado uplifted roofs to an outbuilding and outbuilding sheds, caused roof damage to both a church and a home, and snapped several large tree branches.

The wider storm

Multiple rounds of heavy rainfall and thunderstorms brought severe weather and flooding to southwest Missouri from November 4-5, 2024. A corridor of very heavy rainfall east of Springfield caused several rivers to reach major flood stage, with some locations experiencing record flooding. A total of four tornadoes were also observed on November 4, all of which were EF-0 in strength. Residual river flooding was observed through November 8, 2024 before flood waters began to recede.

Began near Elsey (36.8563, -93.5548).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1219773. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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