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EF1 tornado in St. Louis County, Missouri

Tornado March 14, 2025 · St. Louis County, Missouri

EF1
Rating
17.8 mi
Whole path
130 yd
Path width
1
Injury
$6.5M
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Franklin County → St. Louis County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 130 yards (0.07 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

The tornado then moved into western St. Louis county from Franklin County, where it continued to produce concentrated, significant tree damage before dissipating at the bend in Highway 100, northeast of Fox Creek.

The wider storm

During the late afternoon of March 14, 2025, numerous severe thunderstorms developed across central Missouri and tracked east. After sunset, these thunderstorms began producing tornadoes, some strong, causing several injuries in the St. Louis county warning area (CWA). In total, 13 tornadoes touched down in the CWA, making it one of the most active outbreaks on record for the St. Louis CWA. Seven of these tornadoes occurred at least partially in St. Louis's Missouri counties.

Began near Melrose (38.5605, -90.7334).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1240512. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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