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EF1 tornado in Pike County, Missouri

Tornado June 18, 2025 · Pike County, Missouri

EF1
Rating
3.6 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Pike County → Calhoun County, Illinois; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

An EF-1 tornado moved through parts of eastern Pike County, MO south of Clarksville, damaged a few homes and trees from 10:55 AM to 10:58 AM CDT. The most severe damage was to a 70 year old home where most of the roof was caved in. Here, a 9 year old boy sheltered in a bathtub during the tornado and was unharmed. The tornado was rated EF-1 with a path length of 2.96 miles and a maximum path width of 100 yards.

The wider storm

Numerous thunderstorms percolated in northeast Missouri as a mesoscale convective complex passed to the north. One of these thunderstorms produced a tornado that caused damage to homes in Pike County, MO before crossing into Calhoun County, IL.

Began near Kissenger (39.3140, -90.8862).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1256491. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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