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EF0 tornado in Christian County, Missouri

Tornado April 20, 2025 · Christian County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

1.3 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$15K

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 short-lived EF0 tornado downed large limbs and caused minor shingle and siding damage to a home before the path was no longer visible into a forested area.

The wider storm

A strong storm system moved through the area on Sunday April 20th, 2025. This system brought tornadoes, damaging wind, large hail and heavy rain. The heavy rainfall led to flooding as the area had already received heavy rainfall from storms earlier in the week. Multiple area rivers reached minor to moderate flood stage due to heavy runoff.

Began near Garrison (36.8200, -93.0100).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Wright County EF1 Cherokee County EF0 Barton County EF0 Wright County EF0 Morgan County EF0 Webster County EF0 Douglas County EF0 Shannon County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1255572. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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