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EF1 tornado in Audrain County, Missouri

Tornado April 20, 2025 · Audrain County, Missouri

EF1
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$60K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

A brief tornado tracked south to north just west of Highway MM in north-central Audrain County, destroying a couple of outbuildings and rolling two smaller grain bins. Debris was generally thrown northward and strewn widely, likely due to a downburst immediately following the tornado. The tornado was rated EF-1 with a path length of 0.32 miles and a maximum path width of 50 yards.

The wider storm

During the early afternoon on Sunday, April 20, 2025 (Easter Sunday) a severe thunderstorm developed in Miller County, Missouri and moved northward through Cole County and into Callaway County. The thunderstorm produced one EF-2 tornado near New Bloomfield, MO. This occurred ahead of a line of severe thunderstorms that formed in southwest Missouri and extended northward as it moved east. The line moved into mid-Missouri during the late afternoon hours and marched into eastern Missouri. It produced 4 tornadoes in Missouri and damaging wind reports across the region.

Began near Worchester (39.2898, -91.8183).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Callaway CountyEF1 Boone CountyEF1 Boone CountyEF0 Pike County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1242843. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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