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EF1 tornado in St. Louis County, Missouri

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

EF1
Rating
31.7 mi
Whole path
1,250 yd
Path width
$2.3M
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1,250 yards (0.71 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

As the first EF2 tornado in St. Louis County was dissipating, a second long track tornado formed near Jana Elementary School in Florissant and tracked northeastward, producing widespread damage through Old Jamestown. In St. Louis County the tornado had a path length of 4.36 miles with a maximum path width of 1250 yards.

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 Wedgewood (38.8156, -90.3210).

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 1241363. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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